Ubuntu doesn't recognize RAID5 array - what to do?

Redmond Tux redmondtux at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 02:23:41 UTC 2009


Okay, here's the output:

$ ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-03-01 17:32
6c167cb1-5210-4bc0-9ebe-8deed516b7e5 -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-03-01 17:32
f9d6790c-478c-43e1-bd56-e2ddf9bfa248 -> ../../sdb5
andrew at npimediacenter:~$ df -Th
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1     ext3     15G  2.7G   11G  20% /
tmpfs        tmpfs    1.7G     0  1.7G   0% /lib/init/rw
varrun       tmpfs    1.7G  100K  1.7G   1% /var/run
varlock      tmpfs    1.7G     0  1.7G   0% /var/lock
udev         tmpfs    1.7G  2.9M  1.7G   1% /dev
tmpfs        tmpfs    1.7G  104K  1.7G   1% /dev/shm
lrm          tmpfs    1.7G  2.0M  1.7G   1%
/lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/volatile

$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sdb1
UUID=6c167cb1-5210-4bc0-9ebe-8deed516b7e5 /               ext3
relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/sdb5
UUID=f9d6790c-478c-43e1-bd56-e2ddf9bfa248 none            swap
sw              0       0


redmondtux


On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Matthew Flaschen <
matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:

> Redmond Tux wrote:
> > A few weeks ago I reinstalled the latest version of Ubuntu (wanted a
> > clean start) and discovered, to my unpleasant surprise, that Ubuntu
> > doesn't recognize my RAID5 array.
> >
> > Previously, it was recognized as "Adaptec" (that's the hardware
> > controller that all the drives are tethered to).
>
> Are you expecting HAL to handle you non-removable media?  I would use
> fstab for that.
>
> > In My Computer, instead of showing "Adaptec" it just says "SCSI Drive".
> > This to me suggests it isn't recognizing my array. I have looked around
> > and can't find a solution.
>
> Can you post the output of:
>
> ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -l
> df -Th
> cat /etc/fstab
>
> Matt Flaschen
>
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