From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: gornea <gornea@zoho.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fake RAID 10 on ASRock Z97 Extreme3 with Slackware 14.1
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 08:57:55 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141104085755.3ef82b3d@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14976849ec4.ace7bf4939116.3019157828391505014@zoho.com>
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On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:47:48 +0100 gornea <gornea@zoho.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I hope I'm on the right email list. I'm facing a problem during Slackware 14.1 installation. I have a ASRock motherboard (Z97 Extreme3) with Intel Rapid Storage Technology 13. I have 4 identical new 4-TBy WD hard drives. I configured the option ROM for RAID 10. When booting with Slackware 14.1 CD md finds the array but it always mounts it read only. I tried to work on it to make writable but I was not successful. I have tried to boot with the latest Ubuntu Server CD and it works well. I have also tried to delete the RAID 10 in the option ROM and then create it with mdadm after booting with Slackware 14.1 and I always produces a read only volume. I get no errors or warnings and in general everything seems fine except that I can not write on it (for example I can not create partitions). The md version with Slackware 14.1 boot disk is 3.2.6 and the kernel is 3.10.17. So I'm starting to wonder if actually there is a know problem with that md/kernel? Or maybe there is a problem with the way I use it, but frankly I run out of ideas how to proceed further. This is the output of /proc/mdstat
>
> Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath]
> md126 : active (read-only) raid10 sda[3] sdb[2] sdc[1] sdd[0]
> 7814032384 blocks super external:/md127/0 64K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] [UUUU]
>
> md127 : inactive sda[3](S) sdb[2](S) sdc[1](S) sdd[0](S)
> 9040 blocks super external:imsm
>
> unused devices: <none>
>
> Thanks a lot for any suggestion about how to proceed! I would like to install the fake RAID if it is not impossible with Slackware 14.1. I know that eventually it is possible to install a software RAID but I would like to understand why the Intel fake RAID is not working with Slackware 14.1.
>
More likely a problem with Slackware than with the kernel/mdadm version.
It should a lot like "mdmon" isn't running.
If you simple run
mdmon md127 &
you will probably get write access.
Mdadm should do this for you, or tell systemd to, depending on configuration.
NeilBrown
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