Just a swag: Is the power supply up to the task? I have had a marginal power supply have difficulty spinning up multiple drives on occasion (i.e. boots fail sometimes). Might be a quick check if you have another to swap in to test. Kelly > Thu Mar 21 2013 12:41:46 PM CDT from "Yaron" <tclug at freakzilla.com> >Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Software RAID issues... > > this is a brand new setup - brand new machine, brand new OS install, brand > > new RAID array and drives, so nothing can really be out of date (: > mdadm.conf does not have an "ARRAY" line, but from what I've heard it > doesn't need to have one. > > Like I said, you reboot enough times and it works fine. I really think > it's some kind of timing issue. I do hear the drives spin up and the > correct LEDs on the array box DO light up. I'm not seeing any error > messages, nor do I know where to look for them, is the problem. > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130321/392abef9/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130321/392abef9/attachment.ksh>