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 anything at

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 be

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 mdadm: /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,/dev/sdc

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,/dev/sdc

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 ARRAY /dev/md0

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 here.

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 --assemble --scan,

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 disk

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 /dev/sdc, if I

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 make

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 add