From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Voit Subject: Re: only 4 spares and no access to my data Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:27:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <62b0912f0607091223y3d0a1ab5xbc5fb01ce2a74f9e@mail.gmail.com> <44B213CD.5010907@idgmail.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Henrik Holst idgmail.se> writes: > Karl Voit wrote: > [snip] > > Well this is because of the false(?) superblocks of sda-sdd in comparison > to > > sda1 to sdd1. > > I don't understand this. Me neither *g* This is the hint of a friend of mine, who is lot more experienced with sw-raids. > Do you have more than a single partion on sda? No. > Is sda1 occupying the entire disk? Yes. root@ned ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 30395 244147806 fd Linux raid autodetect root@ned ~ # I created the raid5 with sd[abcd]1 and not with sd[abcd]. > since the superblock is the /last/ > "128Kb" (I'm assuming 128*1024 bytes) the superblocks should be one and > the same. Really? Then how come that the md0 woun't start? I also upgraded my system (kernel and md0) and now I get longer messages about the superblocks which I already posted here in my previous posting. root@ned ~ # date;cat /proc/mdstat Mon Jul 10 10:56:44 CEST 2006 Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [multipath] [raid6] [raid10] unused devices: root@ned ~ # TNX so far, I appreciate your help!