Re: [gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks

[Nick Pappin]

Do you have the lsi fusion kernel driver installed?

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W. Nick Pappin

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Dave <dave.mehler@×××××.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>        Thanks for your reply. I did change the type of the partitions on
> both disks to fd linux raid autodetect. When i rebooted in to the live CD i
> gave it the mdadm -A /dev/md3 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 it found both drives and
> brought them up. I was then able to mount the array.
>        In my kernel config file i do have CONFIG_MD_RAID1 set to Y.
> I've just tried compiling a genkernel and got the same error when i tried
> to
> load it. Any suggestions welcome.
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Pappin [mailto:npappin@××××××××.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 5:12 PM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks
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> A couple of things when you reboot into the live cd you need to tell mdadm
> to assemble the drive /dev/md3 with the command mdadm -A /dev/md3 /dev/sda3
> /dev/sdb3. As for the booting problem i think it may be that you are
> missing
> a driver did you put the md raid 1 driver into the kernel. Last Neil has a
> point when you ran fdisk did you change the partition type to auto detect
> raid.
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> W. Nick Pappin
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> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
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>        On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:07:04 -0400, Dave wrote:
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>        > Upon reboot i'm seeing mdadm
>        > trying to detect the two disks, and not succeeding,
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>        Did you set the partition type to Linux RAID Autodetect (FD)?
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>        Neil Bothwick
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>        If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
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