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From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:57:56 +0100
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On 24/04/2011 09:41, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:06:52 -0600 John Valarti<mdadmuser@gmail.com>  wrote:
[...]
>> Here you go. I warn you it is a bit long!
>
> Thanks.  Length is no problem.
>
> Only it doesn't make sense at all.  I cannot see how mdadm would possibly be
> generating just those messages.
> It appear to be rejecting each device for some reason, but it not reporting
> why it is rejecting the device...
>
> What version of mdadm is this?
>     mdadm --version
>
> I should have asked that before.

I think John said 2.6.9 on the CentOS 5.5 rescue media. I think it's 
time to try something more recent: John, could you try SystemRescueCD 
from http://www.sysresccd.org/ and run
   mdadm -Evvs
and if that shows your RAID5 members again,
   mdadm -Afvv /dev/md1

Cheers,

John.