From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Re: Impact of missing parameter during mdadm create Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:02:44 +0000 Message-ID: <4D725094.2010503@anonymous.org.uk> References: ,<1299307055.4999.8.camel@tankquad> 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: Mike Viau Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linuxraid@kendrummond.com List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 05/03/2011 14:47, Mike Viau wrote: [...] > I am going to mark this thread as [solved] for now, the issue was not > with the missing parameter, but with the drive missing being > connected to the usb bus. When I get a moment later today I'll search > around to see what others in this situations have done. If all else > fails and I don't find anything or I just find the quick and dirty > script fixes, then I will post a new thread looking for suggestions. You need to get the USB drivers and usb-storage modules into your initramfs. On CentOS 5 you do that with mkinitrd --with-usb but I don't what other distros use. Cheers, John.