Failed Drives in Software RAID

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Shane Archer wrote:
> Here's the mdadm command I am using:
> 
> # mdadm -Cv /dev/md0 -l5 -n3 -c128 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd

Hmmm...  Shouldn't those three really be partitions on the disk (not 
entire disk)?  With partitions being of type 0xfd (Linux raid 
autodetect).  What is the output of "cat /proc/mdstat"?

Try doing above with partitions (for example, /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 
/dev/sdd1), make sure you set them to type 0xfd using fdisk before you 
create RAID device, and see what happens.

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