From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Rudy Zijlstra <rudy@grumpydevil.homelinux.org>
Subject: Re: RAID6 simply does not start as /dev/md8
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:22:01 +0200
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On 04/08/2011 04:58 PM, Yann Ormanns wrote:
> Do you have perhaps old raid metadata on the disks? Are you certain you
>> have no raid metadata on the whole disks?
>> you can check with mdadm --Examine /dev/sdc
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> Rudy
>>
>>      
> To eliminate this possibility, I "zeroed" all six disks before I created
> the array:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M
> ...
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdf bs=1M
>
> Output of mdadm -E /dev/sda1:
> 	/dev/sda1:
>    
Just to humour me, the output without the partition number? so /dev/sda ?

Cheers,


Rudy