<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Drescher</b> <<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Unfortunately, I don't get very far trying to diagnose with mdadm - it<br>> simply complains that /dev/md0 does not exist whether booted from the live<br>> CD or not...<br>><br>If it is actually running this is good. Do you have a /dev/md0 node?
<br><br>ls -l /dev/md*<br><br>If not<br><br>cd /dev<br>MAKEDEV md<br><br>Then try<br><br>mdadm --assemble --scan<br><br>or if you know all the drives<br><br>mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 <drives><br><br><br></blockquote>
</div>/dev/md exists (it is an empty directory)<br><br>mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 <drives> results in:<br>"mdadm: error opening md0: no such file or directory"<br><br>so then I tried MAKEDEV md anyway; I got:
<br>"udev active, devices will be created in /dev/.static/dev"<br><br>forging ahead, I did <br>mdadm --assemble /dev/.static/dev/md0 <drives>, and<br>"mdadm: no recognizable superblock on /dev/sda"
<br>"mdadm: /dev/sda has no superblock - assembly aborted"<br><br>Sadly, I got the same "/dev/sd* has no superblock" regardless of which drive I put first in the list. So all 4 drives failed simultaneously?
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