martin f krafft wrote:
If you agree: http://bugs.debian.org/537993 ;)
I agree, but I'm way too ignorant in these matters to try coding.
Fixed.mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdbX
Well, I thought it was fixed. But on reboot, dmesg said somebody was still trying to start those 3 RAID arrays I thought I'd destroyed. At least zeroing the RAID superblocks made them all fail.
DBAN ( http://www.dban.org/ ) on the RAID disks actually did get rid of those arrays. Now dmesg just says somebody is saying that RAID is broken.
But it's working on a system with a SCSI system disk and a pair of SATAs in RAID1 for data. In spite of the best efforts of the BIOS, the kernel, udev, and mdadm to kill it :-)
So far... -- Glenn English ghe@slsware.com