[Matthew Burke]
> e2fsck 1.18, 11-nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while
> trying to open /dev/md1
> Could this be a zero-length partition?
>
> /dev/md1 is not mounted, but it is properly set up in /etc/raidtab
>
> raidstart /dev/md1 produeces no error message, but fails to do anything.
Could you paste /proc/mdstat? If the arrays aren't active, fsck won't
be able to do anything on them. If the arrays are indeed inactive,
some syslog entries that relate to it (autostart'ing, I'd imagine)
could be helpful as well.
James