From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Vanhorn, Mike" Subject: Odd --examine output Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:47:31 +0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Content-Language: en-US Content-ID: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids These two disks are (or, at least, were) part of my failed level 6 array. What does this output indicate? # mdadm --examine /dev/sdg /dev/sdg: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 3907024002 sectors at 63 (type fd) # mdadm --examine /dev/sdh /dev/sdh: MBR Magic : aa55 Partition[0] : 3907024002 sectors at 63 (type fd) Why doesn't it instead give the same sort of metadata that the other disks show? It's as if there is no raid superblock on these two disks, but how is this possible if the disks have been part of a working array? --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright State University 265 Russ Engineering Center 937-775-5157 michael.vanhorn@wright.edu http://www.cecs.wright.edu/~mvanhorn/