Honestly, I don't know why or how it worked, but it did. I used the --examine --scan to see if it would even recognize the array. Once I realized it recognized it, I told it to scan and run the array. It told me there were no super blocks, but it loaded it right up and I was able to mount my array for use in the disk manager. Unfortunately, I was forced to use this method to actually recover my data from my degraded (and corrupted) RAID 5 array after my bios decided it didn't want to recognize it as existing anymore. But yeah, apparently mdadm can recognize and run degraded fakeraid Level 5 arrays as well. So, the answer to your question is no; I didn't have it create the array, I had it take the two working drives from my 3 drive array and run the arrays it found on them. We might look at this as a viable solution if it continues to work right.
Would you like a screenshot or a verbose log of the examine results produced by mdadm as verification? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/666577 Title: dmraid hangs trying to start ICH9R RAID 5 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
