Florian Philipp <lists <at> binarywings.net> writes: > Are you sure sda1 and sdb1 are not in use? Did the kernel activate the > already present RAID? Then you have to deactivate it. Use > mdadm --stop /dev/md*
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh! livecd ~ # mdadm --stop /dev/md* mdadm: error opening /dev/md: Is a directory mdadm: stopped /dev/md1 mdadm: stopped /dev/md125 mdadm: stopped /dev/md126 mdadm: stopped /dev/md127 mdadm: stopped /dev/md3 mdadm: stopped /dev/md4 So it has 2 sets of md ? mdadm --create /dev/md127 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 --metadata=0.90 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 mdadm: /dev/sda1 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid1 devices=2 ctime=Sun Apr 10 17:12:42 2011 mdadm: /dev/sdb1 appears to be part of a raid array: level=raid1 devices=2 ctime=Sun Apr 10 17:12:42 2011 Continue creating array? y mdadm: array /dev/md127 started. What next? James