Ubuntu
mdadm package

  1. Bug #75681
  2. Comment #44

Comment 44 for bug 75681

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Jeff Balderson (jbalders) wrote :

FWIW, I have the problem, exactly as described, with a IDE-only system.

I attempted this with both an Edgy->Feisty upgrade (mid Februrary), and a fresh install of Herd5.

I'm running straight RAID1 for all my volumes:

md0 -> hda1/hdc1 -> /boot
md1 -> hda5/hdc5 -> /
md2 -> hda6/hdc6 -> /usr
md3 -> hda7/hdc7 -> /tmp
md4 -> hda8/hdc8 -> swap
md5 -> hda9/hdc9 -> /var
md6 -> hda10/hdc10 -> /export

EVERY time I boot, mdadm complains that it can't build my arrays. It dumps me in the busybox shell where I discover that all /dev/hda* and /dev/hdc* devices are missing. I ran across a suggestion here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2236181&postcount=5. I followed the instructions and so far, it's worked perfectly at every boot (about 5 times now).

Other than just to post a "me too", I thought my comments might help give a possible temporary workaround, as well as document the fact this isn't just a SATA problem.