More on SW RAID... see previous posts for details
I've managed to use mdadm to query the five drives and all have current superblocks. ALL say they are not clean.
I've been able to get all five to come up by using fdisk to change the type of one drive, boot, change it back.
Remember what seems to be happening: four drive raid won't mount... says the array is 'unclean' Five seems to crash the box durring boot for no obvious reason (it does say it is 'reconstructing the array... but even letting it run for hours seems to make little progress). By using fdisk, SuSE will automagically try to mount the array, but since there are only four, it leads to problems.
In the how-to (see link in the comments) it says I should can use
mdadm --rebuild
to rebuild the array... helpful when two drives TEMPORARILY go down as I'm convinced has been the case. The --rebuild (if I understand it correctly) is rebuilding the index information.
When I try this command, I get a response of somethign like, '/dev/md0 not in config'
What the hell does this mean? Does there need to be an entry in the fstab?
I've managed to use mdadm to query the five drives and all have current superblocks. ALL say they are not clean.
I've been able to get all five to come up by using fdisk to change the type of one drive, boot, change it back.
Remember what seems to be happening: four drive raid won't mount... says the array is 'unclean' Five seems to crash the box durring boot for no obvious reason (it does say it is 'reconstructing the array... but even letting it run for hours seems to make little progress). By using fdisk, SuSE will automagically try to mount the array, but since there are only four, it leads to problems.
In the how-to (see link in the comments) it says I should can use
mdadm --rebuild
to rebuild the array... helpful when two drives TEMPORARILY go down as I'm convinced has been the case. The --rebuild (if I understand it correctly) is rebuilding the index information.
When I try this command, I get a response of somethign like, '/dev/md0 not in config'
What the hell does this mean? Does there need to be an entry in the fstab?
