From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qiz5G-00068u-2t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:26:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4A4A21C0CD; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:26:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com [66.147.249.253]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5186721C06B for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:25:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 1852 invoked by uid 0); 19 Jul 2011 01:25:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box347.bluehost.com) (69.89.31.147) by oproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 19 Jul 2011 01:25:45 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=lotussevencars.com; h=Received:Subject:From:Reply-To:To:Content-Type:Date:Message-ID:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=eKo6Usu5q32zr+7BfLnvKHXGu/PJ/z+W/co+mssR56OAKyfi+PzTsYFkztpvz6w8M8EbTQRx1xC89QQekcbLfEXgwRY46k798DLrVMzcXBTPtAJ7oWiRA9pAR+GzGW6T; Received: from user-0c2h1mf.cable.mindspring.com ([24.40.134.207] helo=[192.168.2.101]) by box347.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (SSLv3:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qiz46-0007Gb-Sh for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:25:45 -0600 Subject: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array From: Jeff Cranmer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:26:14 -0400 Message-ID: <1311038774.7499.11.camel@laptop.limeyworld> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.1.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {793:box347.bluehost.com:lotussev:lotussevencars.com} {sentby:smtp auth 24.40.134.207 authed with jeff@lotussevencars.com} X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: bfa5cae113d9b6ee303391ce6e3d1228 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 up the raid array (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc). Unfortunately, the system does not seem to be able to detect the raid array, and dmesg shows no md disks detected or mounted. There are a few guides on line for setting up a system which boots to a raid array, but I haven't found any guides for simply mounting a raided disk. I think I've got all the kernel settings right, and the raid array was working before I cleared out the IDE disk. I know that the Nvidia array isn't a true hardware raid array, but it's a data disk only, and while I have a reasonably recent backup, I'm not keen on re-formatting it and setting up a kernel-based raid array. Any suggestions or pointers gratefully received. Thanks in advance. Jeff