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On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 16:55 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> On 01/-10/37 11:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> > I think this one should have worked? It seems to have found the |
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> > superblock on /dev/sda, at least. |
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> > Anyway, I imagine everyone (myself included) is afraid to tell you to do |
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> > anything at this point that might trash your data. My advice now would |
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> > be to put it back where it worked, and make a backup. |
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> I'm just going through this myself. As far as I know mdadm does *not* |
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> support nvraid. It does support imsm, or intel raid, which I'm in the |
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> process of setting up on my workstation. |
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> I can't find anything in the docs regarding mdadm working with nvraid, |
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> you should be trying dmraid for that. |
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> If all you have is /dev/control and you are not using a dmraid supported |
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> kernel (genkernel requires dodmraid to find and assemble arrays) then |
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> execute `dmraid -ay` and check dmesg and /dev/mapper for contents. |
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> Dan |
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Thanks Dan, |
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I'm not using genkernel at the moment. I'll try those steps and let you |
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know how it goes. The Raid array worked on the OpenSuse operating |
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system that I blew away to install gentoo, so I should be able to |
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resurrect it without wiping everything out. |
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Jeff |
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