dmraid -r reports "inconsistent"

[Brian Keener]

 6/9/06, Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:49:17AM -0400, Brian Keener wrote:
> > On 6/7/06, Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 07:43:26AM -0400, Brian Keener wrote:
> > >> dmraid -r
> > >> /dev/hdb: nvidia, "nvidia_hbjebege", mirror, inconsistent, 488281248
> > >> sectors, data@ 0
> > >> /dev/hdd: nvidia, "nvidia_hbjebege", mirror, inconsistent, 490234750
> > >> sectors, data@ 0
> > >>
> > >> It's an nforce3 250 chipset with two 250 gig IDE drives, one primary
> > >slave,
> > >> one secondary slave.
> > >>
> > >> I JUST set this raid up last night.
> > >>
> > >> Nvidia's bios-based config utility reports the status as good.
> > >>
> > >> My suspicion is that it's still initializing the array...
> > >
> > >Yes, the OS (i.e. device-mapper) needs to do it.
> >
> >
> > Is this something that should be happening automatically, or do I need
> to
> > initiate this somehow?
>
> It should happen automatically, unless the BIOS reports the wrong state
> or dmraid interprets it wrongly.
> I'ld like to know about either case ;-)
>
> Heinz
>
>
>
It still reported "inconsistent" as of last night.

Using the built-in RAID didn't really make sense considering this was a
reiserfs partition I was mirroring and windows won't even recognize it, so I
rebuilt as a standard software mirror using mdadm.

Brian K
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