On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 16:55 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 01/-10/37 11:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > > I think this one should have worked? It seems to have found the > > superblock on /dev/sda, at least. > > > > Anyway, I imagine everyone (myself included) is afraid to tell you to do > > anything at this point that might trash your data. My advice now would > > be to put it back where it worked, and make a backup. > > I'm just going through this myself. As far as I know mdadm does *not* > support nvraid. It does support imsm, or intel raid, which I'm in the > process of setting up on my workstation. > > I can't find anything in the docs regarding mdadm working with nvraid, > you should be trying dmraid for that. > > If all you have is /dev/control and you are not using a dmraid supported > kernel (genkernel requires dodmraid to find and assemble arrays) then > execute `dmraid -ay` and check dmesg and /dev/mapper for contents. > > Dan > Thanks Dan,
I'm not using genkernel at the moment. I'll try those steps and let you know how it goes. The Raid array worked on the OpenSuse operating system that I blew away to install gentoo, so I should be able to resurrect it without wiping everything out. Jeff
