From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Bryan Christ <bryan.christ@hp.com>
Subject: Re: Raid array is not automatically detected.
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:49:32 -0500
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Ya.  I saw my mistake just a little while ago and running --examine on 
the component worked fine.  I didn't see anything suspicious.

David Greaves wrote:
> Bryan Christ wrote:
>> I'm now very confused...
> It's all that top-posting...
> 
> 
>> When I run mdadm --examine /dev/md0 I get the error message:  No 
>> superblock detected on /dev/md0
>>
>> However, when I run mdadm -D /dev/md0 the report clearly states 
>> "Superblock is persistent"
> 
>> David Greaves wrote:
>>> * are the superblocks version 0.9? (mdadm --examine /dev/component)
> 
> See where it says 'component' ? :)
> 
> I wish mdadm --detail and --examine were just aliases and the output 
> varied according to whether you looked at a component (eg /dev/sda1) or 
> an md device (/dev/md0)
> 
> I get that wrong *all* the time...
> 
> David