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

[Nick Pappin]

Not a problem

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W. Nick Pappin


On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Dave <dave.mehler@×××××.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>        I had the LSI driver loading as a module. I recompiled the kernel
> and made it monolithic, put in the raid and other drivers in that way and
> rebooted. It is working!
>        That also explains another unrelated issue.
> Thanks a lot.
> Dave.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Pappin [mailto:npappin@××××××××.org]
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 3:58 PM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks
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> Do you have the lsi fusion kernel driver installed?
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> --
> W. Nick Pappin
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> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Dave <dave.mehler@×××××.com> wrote:
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>        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
>
>        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.
>
>        --
>        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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