From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?BERTRAND_Jo=EBl?= Subject: Re: HELP! New disks being dropped from RAID 6 array on every reboot Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:40:07 +0100 Message-ID: <47472C97.60809@systella.fr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Joshua Johnson wrote: > Greetings, long time listener, first time caller. > > I recently replaced a disk in my existing 8 disk RAID 6 array. > Previously, all disks were PATA drives connected to the motherboard > IDE and 3 promise Ultra 100/133 controllers. I replaced one of the > Promise controllers with a Via 64xx based controller, which has 2 SATA > ports and one PATA port. I connected a new SATA drive to the new > card, partitioned the drive and added it to the array. After 5 or 6 > hours the resyncing process finished and the array showed up complete. > Upon rebooting I discovered that the new drive had not been added to > the array when it was assembled on boot. I resynced it and tried > again -- still would not persist after a reboot. I moved one of the > existing PATA drives to the new controller (so I could have the slot > for network), rebooted and rebuilt the array. Now when I reboot BOTH > disks are missing from the array (sda and sdb). Upon examining the > disks it appears they think they are part of the array, but for some > reason they are not being added when the array is being assembled. > For example, this is a disk on the new controller which was not added > to the array after rebooting: What is your partition system ? When I have tried to created a raid6 array over a SunOS partition type, I have seen this bug. Never on PC system. Regards, JKB