isw device for volume broken after opensuse livecd boot

[Sean Bruno]

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 00:36 +0100, Tiago Freitas wrote:
> Hi.
> I had a working raid array in an Intel ICH9R controller with the two
> volumes working ( ok in windows and mandriva 2008 livecd).
> 
> I booted the Opensuse 10.3RC2 live cd and did "dmraid -ay" and got the
> following errors:
> 
> ERROR: isw device for volume "RAID0" broken on /dev/sda in RAID set
> "isw_bbcfceegje_RAID0"
> ERROR: isw: wrong # of devices in RAID set "isw_bbcfceegje_RAID0"
> [1/2] on /dev/sda
> ERROR: isw device for volume "RAID1" broken on /dev/sda in RAID set
> "isw_bbcfceegje_RAID1"
> ERROR: isw: wrong # of devices in RAID set "isw_bbcfceegje_RAID1"
> [1/2] on /dev/sda
> ERROR: isw device for volume "RAID0" broken on /dev/sdb in RAID set
> "isw_chgffgbhfa_RAID0"
> ERROR: isw: wrong # of devices in RAID set "isw_chgffgbhfa_RAID0"
> [1/2] on /dev/sdb
> ERROR: isw device for volume "RAID1" broken on /dev/sdb in RAID set
> "isw_chgffgbhfa_RAID1"
> ERROR: isw: wrong # of devices in RAID set "isw_chgffgbhfa_RAID1"
> [1/2] on /dev/sdb
> ERROR: no mapping possible for RAID set isw_bbcfceegje_RAID1
> ERROR: no mapping possible for RAID set isw_chgffgbhfa_RAID1
> 
> Now in the intel bios it says the disks are offline.
> The livecd must have a bug that destroys all raid arrays. I think the
> problem is in device-mapper, because I did "dmraid --version" and the
> device-mapper was "unknown". In mandriva it is 4.11.0. Dmraid is rc14
> in both.
> I don't have any logs from the live boot because the network was not working.
> 
> Is there any way to recover the raid volumes? I can provide you with
> all the files needed, just ask.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tiago Freitas

I was a bit confused.  Did you have a working linux installation with a
raid1 and then you booted the SUSE live CD, causing your failure?

Sean