Re: HELP! New disks being dropped from RAID 6 array on every reboot

2007-11-25 Thread Joshua Johnson
On Nov 24, 2007 9:27 PM, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I think you read that backward. using PARTITIONS is the right way to do > it, but I was suggesting that the boot mdadm.conf in initrd was still using > the old deleted partition names. And I assume that the old drives were >

Re: HELP! New disks being dropped from RAID 6 array on every reboot

2007-11-24 Thread Joshua Johnson
On Nov 24, 2007 12:20 PM, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does that match what's in the init files used at boot? By any chance > does the information there explicitly list partitions by name? If you > change to "PARTITIONS" in /etc/mdadm.conf it won't bite you until you > change the de

HELP! New disks being dropped from RAID 6 array on every reboot

2007-11-23 Thread Joshua Johnson
Greetings, long time listener, first time caller. I recently replaced a disk in my existing 8 disk RAID 6 array. Previously, all disks were PATA drives connected to the motherboard IDE and 3 promise Ultra 100/133 controllers. I replaced one of the Promise controllers with a Via 64xx based control