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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Raid 5 Problem
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:50:20 +1100
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In-Reply-To: message from nterry on Sunday December 14
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To: nterry <nigel@nigelterry.net>
Cc: Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu.info>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
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On Sunday December 14, nigel@nigelterry.net wrote:
> 
> I added the DEVICE /dev/sd[bcde]1 to mdadm.conf and that apepars to have 
> fixed the problem.  2 reboots and it worked both times.

An alternate fix in this case would be

  mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdb

to remove the old superblock that is confusing things.

NeilBrown