Hello All, I clean installed Fedora 12 on my PC which was previously running Fedora 11. In F11, I had three md RAID devices: two were configured as RAID 1, and the third was RAID 5. /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 came up fine. But, /dev/md3 (yes, that's what I called it), did not. So, before I did anything else, I booted up with a recovery CD. Strangely, the recovery CD saw all the raid devices and brought them all up without any problem! At least I know my RAID 5 set is ok. My Linux RAID skills/experience aren't that deep, so I'm not sure how to fix this. I'd appreciate any pointers. Some details: [ranbir@master Downloads]$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sd[a-e] Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000c9149 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 14 121601 976655610 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xf61d63b2 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 60801 488384001 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000a00c1 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc2 14 121601 976655610 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdd: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x8fa9253e Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 1 60801 488384001 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sde: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xf6ee8946 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sde1 1 60801 488384001 fd Linux raid autodetect [ranbir@master Downloads]$ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 3a191f31:ba633013:ae9dbec1:62cec51b Creation Time : Sat Aug 15 23:22:40 2009 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 488386496 (465.76 GiB 500.11 GB) Array Size : 976772992 (931.52 GiB 1000.22 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 2 Update Time : Tue Oct 13 13:03:16 2009 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 618de7ea - correct Events : 13144 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 0 8 16 0 active sync /dev/sdb 0 0 8 16 0 active sync /dev/sdb 1 1 0 0 1 faulty removed 2 2 8 64 2 active sync /dev/sde [ranbir@master Downloads]$ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdd /dev/sdd: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 3a191f31:ba633013:ae9dbec1:62cec51b Creation Time : Sat Aug 15 23:22:40 2009 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 488386496 (465.76 GiB 500.11 GB) Array Size : 976772992 (931.52 GiB 1000.22 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 3 Preferred Minor : 2 Update Time : Tue Oct 13 08:56:02 2009 State : clean Active Devices : 3 Working Devices : 3 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 618da50d - correct Events : 11958 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 1 8 48 1 active sync /dev/sdd 0 0 8 16 0 active sync /dev/sdb 1 1 8 48 1 active sync /dev/sdd 2 2 8 64 2 active sync /dev/sde [ranbir@master Downloads]$ sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sde /dev/sde: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 0.90.00 UUID : 3a191f31:ba633013:ae9dbec1:62cec51b Creation Time : Sat Aug 15 23:22:40 2009 Raid Level : raid5 Used Dev Size : 488386496 (465.76 GiB 500.11 GB) Array Size : 976772992 (931.52 GiB 1000.22 GB) Raid Devices : 3 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 2 Update Time : Tue Oct 13 13:04:10 2009 State : clean Active Devices : 1 Working Devices : 1 Failed Devices : 1 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 618de85f - correct Events : 13146 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 2 8 64 2 active sync /dev/sde 0 0 0 0 0 removed 1 1 0 0 1 faulty removed 2 2 8 64 2 active sync /dev/sde Regards, Ranbir -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines