Hi all, just migrating from Mandriva to Debian and I can't mount my raid array no more. When I boot on Mandriva the raid is ok. I can mount it. Debian just doesn't want! I've run Fsck from mandriva, no problem found. Surely i've missed something but I can't figure what... Any clue??? joel Dmesg gives: raid5: automatically using best checksumming function: generic_sse generic_sse: 5464.000 MB/sec raid5: using function: generic_sse (5464.000 MB/sec) md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 4.39 raid6: int64x1 1644 MB/s raid6: int64x2 2125 MB/s raid6: int64x4 2078 MB/s raid6: int64x8 1449 MB/s raid6: sse2x1 632 MB/s raid6: sse2x2 933 MB/s raid6: sse2x4 1371 MB/s raid6: using algorithm sse2x4 (1371 MB/s) md: raid6 personality registered for level 6 md: raid5 personality registered for level 5 md: raid4 personality registered for level 4 md: md0 stopped. md: bind<hdf> md: bind<hdg> md: bind<hdh> md: bind<hde> raid5: device hde operational as raid disk 0 raid5: device hdh operational as raid disk 3 raid5: device hdg operational as raid disk 2 raid5: device hdf operational as raid disk 1 raid5: allocated 4276kB for md0 raid5: raid level 5 set md0 active with 4 out of 4 devices, algorithm 2 RAID5 conf printout: --- rd:4 wd:4 fd:0 disk 0, o:1, dev:hde disk 1, o:1, dev:hdf disk 2, o:1, dev:hdg disk 3, o:1, dev:hdh # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0 : active raid5 hde[0] hdh[3] hdg[2] hdf[1] 1172133888 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] unused devices: <none> And near the end : EXT3-fs error (device md0): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 880 not in group (block 67108864)! EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted! If I try to mount : #mount /dev/md0 /mnt/raid mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/md0, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so
Is it software or hardware RAID? What kind of hard disks do you use (SATA, IDE,...)? Which Debian kernel?
Kernel is 2.6.17-2-amd6, RAID is software with 4 IDE disk and a PCI IDE controller: 02:0a.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 (rev 02) (prog-if 85) Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc. Ultra133TX2 Mandriva's kernel is 2.6.17 based. joel