From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
Subject: Re: Deleting an raid device
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 17:10:08 +0400
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me@heyjay.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What are the proper steps for deleting all remnants of a previous raid
> install?

<I inserted some lame joke here using /dev/zero and dd but I re-thought it after picturing someone 
blindly doing a cut and paste, then cursing me for zeroing their boot disk by mistake.>

> I've done:
> mdadm --stop /dev/md0
> mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/md0
> 
> But I still see it getting stopped on shutdown.

Have you blitzed the /etc/raidtab file? (If you had one that is)
You may be seeing your distribution trying to shutdown the array on shutdown rather than something 
actually being stopped.

Regards,
Brad