Comment 11 for bug 383001

I was a bit early about that fix.

Now what I have is that the everything works perfectly until a *hard* power-off (cold boot, e.g. when the computer is entirely turned off). Then the drives are again marked "offline member".

It can be fixed by simply booting into the live CD, not touching anything and reboot immediately, then the drives are operating normal again until the next power off. If I turn off the computer with a working RAID *anytime*, from the operating system (Win or Linux), or I press the power button on the GRUB screen, or even during the BIOS startup immediately after the beep, then the drives again go offline after power on. GRUB therefore cannot be the culprit.

The key is definitely going into power-off mode: doing this will invalidate the RAID whatever the circumstances are. No idea why does the live CD boot fix it until the next power off. After booting from the offline state dmraid in the live CD says drives are normal.

Looks like a Gigabyte-specific(?) Intel BIOS-related problem which somehow intertwined with power management. BTW, the board cannot wake up from S3, which is kind of "normal" with these new Gigabyte boards (they are still patching the BIOS).

Ubuntu is still affected in that the problems started after the live CD inserted. Before that it was working normal and the drives were recognized correctly after a power-off from Windows. Linux changed something which made this particular Gigabyte-Intel board confused about its RAID arrays.