[linux-raid] few partitions down

[superyupkent]

Hello everyone,

 

I have been installing mandrake a few times over the last months to get a few features working the way I wanted. One of the most important ones was software raid 1 on 2 20GB drives. I have created md0 until md5 during the setup process. I was under the impression that everything worked fine until I checked the software raid section under webmin. It gave the following output:

 
Device file  /dev/md0 
RAID level  Mirrored (RAID1) 
Status  Active and mounted on / 
Persistent superblock?  Yes 
Chunk size  64k kB 
Partitions in RAID  IDE device C partition 1 
IDE device A partition 1  
Device file  /dev/md2 
RAID level  Mirrored (RAID1) 
Status  Active and mounted on /var 
Persistent superblock?  Yes 
Chunk size  64k kB 
Partitions in RAID  IDE device A partition 5 
IDE device C partition 5 (Down) 
Device file  /dev/md3 
RAID level  Mirrored (RAID1) 
Status  Active and mounted on /usr 
Persistent superblock?  Yes 
Chunk size  64k kB 
Partitions in RAID  IDE device C partition 6 
IDE device A partition 6  
Device file  /dev/md4 
RAID level  Mirrored (RAID1) 
Status  Active and mounted on /home 
Persistent superblock?  Yes 
Chunk size  64k kB 
Partitions in RAID  IDE device A partition 7 (Down) 
IDE device C partition 7  
Device file  /dev/md5 
RAID level  Mirrored (RAID1) 
Status  Active and mounted on /www 
Persistent superblock?  Yes 
Chunk size  64k kB 
Partitions in RAID  IDE device A partition 8 
IDE device C partition 8 (Down)  

 

So apparently stuff is going wrong, I was under the impression that the software raid would automatically initiate during boot. Does anyone know how I can turn on the partitions that are down.

 

The second weird thing is that I have made a md1 where I mounted /tmp on during the install for hda3 & hdc3, now there is no md1 available under webmin and /tmp is available under my current install :o

 

Hope some of you have some suggestions on how i could solve this.

 

Alex