From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: Keeping debian from auto-assembling Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:09:03 +0100 Message-ID: <48186F6F.9070006@dgreaves.com> References: <200804301354.35407.Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200804301354.35407.Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dexter Filmore Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Dexter Filmore wrote: > I'd like to assembla manually to investigate why the bloody 5th disk flies > from the array at EVERY boot time (third so far, wonder how much stress the > disks take) but I can't seen to disable it. > > All 5 disks are 0xFD, but I passed raid=noautodetect to the end of the kernel > line, I set "assemble at startup" in /etc/defaults/mdadm to "false", I > cleared the mdadm.conf - still it assembles the array. No idea why. initrd or udev? > > Hints? I'm currently pretty much down with my nerves on this issue. > > Dex Since you shutdown and booted another distro to see == Events then it's not a bad shutdown process. On reboot it looks like something is assembling the array partially. I'd upgrade udev, then test and then upgrade initrd-tools. David