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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: md devices disappearing on system reboot
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 09:34:33 +1000
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In-Reply-To: message from David Greaves on Tuesday July 8
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To: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
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On Tuesday July 8, david@dgreaves.com wrote:
> thomas62186218@aol.com wrote:
> > Hi Andre,
> > 
> > Thank you very much for the quick response.
> > 
> > My /dev/md0 device is using /dev/sdd1, /dev/sdg1, /dev/sdj1, and /dev/sdm1.
> > 
> > I did:
> > devices=/dev/sd[dgjm]
> ^^^^ add a 1 to the end...
> devices=/dev/sd[dgjm]1
> 
> > mdadm -A --run /dev/md0 $devices

Also please add -vv to get more verbose output.
So:

   mdadm -A -s -vv
and when that fails
   mdadm -A --run -vv /dev/sd[dgjm]1

Thanks,
NeilBrown