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Mounting External Intel Raid Device on Linux Failing, No Suitable Superblock and Read Past End

I have a hard-disk from a dead machine that I'm trying to mount on my Linux machine. For reference, I'm using Fedora 39 and mdadm v4.2. First, I tried just mounting it, correctly showing it's a RAID ...
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mdadm device missing

After a reboot my /dev/md0 device was missing. This is a RAID-1 array from two partitions of two harddrives. On each of the harddrives is another partition, which together belong to dev/md1. However, ...
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Disable warning from mdadm for “degraded” RAID1 with missing drive

I recently had a server outage due to a failed drive. Because of that I set up the server with a new SSD in RAID1 this time but until I managed to get another SSD drive the mdadm-based RAID1 runs with ...
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Linux MD software raid stripe cache size

From what I can piece together the /sys/block/md0/md/stripe_cache_size is for raid5 and 6 set at a very low default value to avoid starving machines for memory. By increasing this value you can get a ...
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mdadm - Raid 1 arrays do not assemble after reboot

I rebooted my server after creating 3 raid 1 arrays with mdadm, and after rebooting, systemd was spitting out errors about the raid devices timing out when trying to assemble them at boot. I was given ...
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How to restore my RAID5 after mistakenly failing one of the drives?

I have a RAID5 on Xubuntu 20.04, created with mdadm. I failed one of the three drives by mistake. The array is still working, but I get errors or responses I do not understand from my attempts to ...
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New mdadm RAID vanish after reboot

I have problems with mdadm after reboot, I can't reassemble /dev/md0 . I work on debian wheezy. I have done the following steps:: sudo mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=6 --raid-devices=4 /...
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Raid 10 gone - how to rebuild / find informations

Because of another task, i had to disconnect all the raid hdd's from my pc. Shutdown -> disconnect hdd's -> boot -> shutdown -> connect hdd's -> boot -> raid completely lost. mdadm --...
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raid 4 3 disks + 2 parity disks

I have a raid 0 with 3 disks and I want to be able to lose some disks without losing data. I'm using mdadm and I already started to grow my config Current config: Personalities : [raid0] [linear] [...
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My Software RAID 5 has 4 3TB HDDs, now two of them have bad sectors. What is a good way to replace them?

I run mdadm on Ubuntu 18.04 to build a RAID 5 array of 4 3TB drives several years ago. The machine was not running for years. Yesterday I powered it on and found two of the disks have a bunch of bad ...
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mdadm RAID Fast Setup with Empty Drives?

I am recreating some RAID5 disks as RAID6 with mdadm. There is no data on the drives that I care about. Setting up RAID takes a while to setup the shape - I accept that when there there is data that ...
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How to get an inactive RAID device working again?

After booting, my RAID1 device (/dev/md_d0 *) sometimes goes in some funny state and I cannot mount it. * Originally I created /dev/md0 but it has somehow changed itself into /dev/md_d0. # mount /...
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How to reshape a 2-disk RAID1 into a 2-disk RAID5 using mdadm?

According to How to remove a drive from a non-standard 2-drive RAID 5 array?, "with mdadm, a 2 drive RAID 5 is binary identical to a RAID1". If that is so, what's the mdadm command line for ...
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MDADM raid "lost" after reboot

I am kind of scared right now, so I hope you can bring light on my problem! A few weeks ago, I bought a new 2TB drive and decided to setup a software RAID 5 with MDADM on my HTPC (drive sdb, sdc and ...
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How long should RAID 10 syncing stay at 'recovery = 99.9%'?

After replacing a faulty disk in a (CentOS 7) RAID 10, the syncing is at the following stage for quite some time now; it has had this state for more than a day: md10 : active raid10 sdp1[9] sdo1[8](S)...

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