Re: Any hope for a 27 disk RAID6+1HS array with four disks reporting "No md superblock detected"?

["Thomas J. Baker" <tjb@unh.edu>]

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 15:50 -0500, Joe Landman wrote:
> Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> > Any help greately appreciated. Here are the details:
> > 
> > [root@node002 ~]# ./examineRAIDDisks 
> > mdadm -E /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdh1 /dev/sdi1 /dev/sdj1 /dev/sdk1 /dev/sdl1 /dev/sdm1 /dev/sdn1 /dev/sdo1 /dev/sdp1 /dev/sdq1 /dev/sdr1 /dev/sds1 /dev/sdt1 /dev/sdu1 /dev/sdv1 /dev/sdw1 /dev/sdx1 /dev/sdy1 /dev/sdz1 /dev/sdaa1 /dev/sdab1 /dev/sdac1
> > /dev/sdb1:
> >           Magic : a92b4efc
> >         Version : 00.90.00
> 
> Hi Thomas:
> 
>    Don't you need 1.0 or higher superblocks to make this work?
> 
> Joe

The array was made probably two years ago and had been working fine
until recently. In reading the documentation for mdadm, it did seem like
it should have required me to use the higher version but it never
complained when I made it and worked fine.

Thanks,

tjb
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