From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Any hope for a 27 disk RAID6+1HS array with four disks reporting "No md superblock detected"? Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:49:14 -0500 Message-ID: <498B34AA.5020606@tmr.com> References: <1233775657.10151.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4989FF7B.6030503@scalableinformatics.com> <1233781437.696.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1233781437.696.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: tjb@unh.edu Cc: landman@scalableinformatics.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Thomas J. Baker wrote: > The array was made probably two years ago and had been working fine > until recently. In reading the documentation for mdadm, it did seem like > it should have required me to use the higher version but it never > complained when I made it and worked fine. > What have you changed lately? Are the drives all on a single controller? Are you using PARTITIONS in mdadm.conf and letting mdadm find things for itself? -- Bill Davidsen "Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark