Hi all I'm installing a debian server with 4 sata drive on A8V motherboard.
My system is on a 40 go ide hard disk and i've created a raid 5 during installation for my /home with the 4 sata drive. After reboot, i got this : # cat /etc/fstab | grep /home /dev/md0 /home xfs defaults 0 2 # cat /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf DEVICE partitions ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=4 UUID=06d1127c:93799654:8d865636:3fb5f9f1 devices=/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1 # dmesg md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: md0 stopped. [...] libata version 1.02 loaded. sata_promise version 1.00 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFFF0000163200 ctl 0xFFFFFF0000163238 bmdma 0x0 irq 18 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFFF0000163280 ctl 0xFFFFFF00001632B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 18 ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4673 85:7c69 86:3e01 87:4663 88:407f ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 320173056 sectors: lba48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi0 : sata_promise ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4063 85:7c69 86:3e01 87:4063 88:407f ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 320173056 sectors: lba48 ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi1 : sata_promise Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6L160M0 Rev: BANC Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 320173056 512-byte hdwr sectors (163929 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0011d800001af8a1] Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6B160M0 Rev: BANC Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdb: 320173056 512-byte hdwr sectors (163929 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 ip1394: $Rev: 1224 $ Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ip1394: eth1: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0) sata_via version 0.20 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20 sata_via(0000:00:0f.0): routed to hard irq line 10 ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD000 ctl 0xC802 bmdma 0xB800 irq 20 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC400 ctl 0xC002 bmdma 0xB808 irq 20 ata3: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4673 85:7c69 86:3e01 87:4663 88:407f ata3: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 320173056 sectors: lba48 ata3: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi2 : sata_via ata4: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4063 85:7c69 86:3e01 87:4063 88:407f ata4: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 320173056 sectors: lba48 ata4: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi3 : sata_via Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6L160M0 Rev: BANC Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdc: 320173056 512-byte hdwr sectors (163929 MB) SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 ata4: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi3 : sata_via Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6L160M0 Rev: BANC Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdc: 320173056 512-byte hdwr sectors (163929 MB) SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6B160M0 Rev: BANC Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdd: 320173056 512-byte hdwr sectors (163929 MB) SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back /dev/scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 # mount /dev/md0 mount: /dev/md0: can't read superblock I have the same error (bad superblock) with reiserfs or ext3 fs on /home. So does any one know why can't i mount my /home and why do i have that kind of error ? I don't know how where to check for that superblock problem. Thanks. Ps : i have installed raidtools2 and raidutils -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

