Howdy, This is the first time I've played with a software raid and it looks like I'm missing a part.
The raid5 consists of three AHCI 1TB drives (sdb1,sdc1,sdd1) assembled as /dev/md1 and formatted ext3. The raid is just a data drive mounted on /var/media. Here's the array line from /etc/mdadm.conf: ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid5 num-devices=3 UUID=32d159bf:9c7d988b:1caf26c5:a35f83fb After boot, /dev/md1 does not exist. I can run: mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 which starts /dev/md1 then I can mount the raid fine. I've tried adding: DEVICE /dev/sd[bcd]1 to /etc/mdadm.conf, no observable effect. /etc/init.d/mdadm is in the boot rc level and is running after boot (I was expecting this to start the array). Looking thru dmesg and /var/log/messages, it looks like there are no attempts to start the array until I manually try. Any hints on what I'm missing? TIA, Roy -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
