Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-08-02 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 16:55 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 01/-10/37 11:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > > I think this one should have worked? It seems to have found the > > superblock on /dev/sda, at least. > > > > Anyway, I imagine everyone (myself included) is afraid to tell you to do > > an

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-26 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/-10/37 11:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > I think this one should have worked? It seems to have found the > superblock on /dev/sda, at least. > > Anyway, I imagine everyone (myself included) is afraid to tell you to do > anything at this point that might trash your data. My advice now would

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/25/2011 08:00 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 10:45 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 07/22/11 21:56, Jeff Cranmer wrote: >>> Is there anyone who can help me recover my raid array? >>> Next, I tried commenting out the previously added DEVICE line, and adding

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-25 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 10:45 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 07/22/11 21:56, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > Is there anyone who can help me recover my raid array? > > > >> > >> Next, I tried commenting out the previously added DEVICE line, and > >> adding > >> ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-25 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 10:45 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 07/22/11 21:56, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > Is there anyone who can help me recover my raid array? > > > >> > >> Next, I tried commenting out the previously added DEVICE line, and > >> adding > >> ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/22/11 21:56, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > Is there anyone who can help me recover my raid array? > >> >> Next, I tried commenting out the previously added DEVICE line, and >> adding >> ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb,/dev/sdc >> >> mdadm --assemble --scan returns something different >> mda

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-22 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Is there anyone who can help me recover my raid array? On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 20:43 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 09:06 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 07/18/2011 11:08 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > > > > > > > Pardon my additional questions before taking the plunge her

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-20 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 09:06 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 07/18/2011 11:08 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > > > > Pardon my additional questions before taking the plunge here. > > > > So, given that I have three devices, /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, if > > I run the command mdadm --asse

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 19 July 2011 16:36:20 you wrote: > On Tuesday 19 July 2011 09:06:05 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 07/18/2011 11:08 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > Pardon my additional questions before taking the plunge here. > > > > > > So, given that I have three devices, /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and > > > /

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-19 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/18/2011 11:08 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > Pardon my additional questions before taking the plunge here. > > So, given that I have three devices, /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, if > I run the command mdadm --assemble --scan, would this find all the > components and create a /dev/md0 d

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-18 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 22:29 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > Make sure your kernel supports RAID, and RAID5 (they're separate > options). Then emerge mdadm. Once you get it up and running once, you > can dump the current config to /etc/mdadm.conf so you don't have to > assemble it again. Then

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-18 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/18/2011 09:26 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > Hi all, > > After cleaning off my Opensuse O.S. and installing Gentoo, I'm having > trouble getting my 3-disk nvidia SATA raid5 array back on line. > > The gentoo OS is on a separate non-raid IDE disk, and I can see the > three individual disks which