Hi Randy, It should be finding metadata on both drives but it's not. It only found metadata on /dev/sdb. You probably should send in the raw data (the last megabyte or so to Heinz on that drive. (I'm guessing /dev/sda is your other drive that it should be seeing). -James <blockquote style='border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0.8ex 0pt 0pt 0pt; padding-bottom: 1ex;'> ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Kubuntu on ICH9R RAID Problem Date : Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:44:29 -0800 From : Randy Broman <rbroman@bayarea.net> To : ataraid-list@redhat.com I'm attempting to install Kubuntu 7.10 to be dual booted on an existing Windows Ultimate system. The system has Intel ICH9R RAID, with a single RAID0 striped volume, and two partitions, Windows/NTFS and unformatted. I booted from the Kubuntu install disk and installed dmraid, but dmraid won't successfully activate the RAID volume(s) - see various outputs below. Appreciate ideas on how to fix .... $ sudo dmraid -ay ERROR: isw device for volume "Volume0" broken on /dev/sdb in RAID set "isw_dhbacihbbf_Volume0" ERROR: isw: wrong # of devices in RAID set "isw_dhbacihbbf_Volume0" [1/2] on /dev/sdb $ sudo dmraid -r /dev/sdb: isw, "isw_dhbacihbbf", GROUP, ok, 488397166 sectors, data@ 0 $ sudo dmraid -ay -vvvv -dddd WARN: locking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/sdf NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/sde NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/sdd NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/sdc NOTICE: /dev/sda: asr discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: ddf1 discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: hpt37x discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: hpt45x discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: isw discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: jmicron discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: lsi discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: nvidia discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: pdc discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: sil discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: via discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: asr discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: ddf1 discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: hpt37x discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: hpt45x discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: isw discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: isw metadata discovered NOTICE: /dev/sdb: jmicron discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: lsi discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: nvidia discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: pdc discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: sil discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: via discovering DEBUG: _find_set: searching isw_dhbacihbbf DEBUG: _find_set: not found isw_dhbacihbbf DEBUG: _find_set: searching isw_dhbacihbbf_Volume0 DEBUG: _find_set: searching isw_dhbacihbbf_Volume0 DEBUG: _find_set: not found isw_dhbacihbbf_Volume0 DEBUG: _find_set: not found isw_dhbacihbbf_Volume0 NOTICE: added /dev/sdb to RAID set "isw_dhbacihbbf" DEBUG: checking isw device "/dev/sdb" DEBUG: set status of set "isw_dhbacihbbf_Volume0" to 2 DEBUG: set status of set "isw_dhbacihbbf" to 4 INFO: Activating GROUP RAID set "isw_dhbacihbbf" WARN: unlocking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock DEBUG: freeing devices of RAID set "isw_dhbacihbbf_Volume0" DEBUG: freeing device "isw_dhbacihbbf_Volume0", path "/dev/sdb" DEBUG: freeing devices of RAID set "isw_dhbacihbbf" DEBUG: freeing device "isw_dhbacihbbf", path "/dev/sdb" _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list mailing list Ataraid-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list </BLOCKQUOTE>