Thanks Ryan,
	That's a very interesting point, we are running SL 3.0.3.  I was
ready to respond with lots of debugging output, when I realized you said it
was fixed in 3.0.*4*, and never mentioned U3 :).  This is a production
machine so we'll need to schedule a downtime to upgrade to 3.0.4 to try it
out.  Pfffttt, I don't recall seeing mention of this change in the release
notes, which is why we thought it wasn't worth upgrading.  I'll dig deeper.

Thanks,
Dan W.


On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 09:16:26PM -0800, Ryan Enge wrote:
> I had a problem with the software RAID autodetection under RHEL 3 (U1-2) which 
> should be identical to SL (3.0.1 and 3.0.2) this problem has disappeared in 
> later updates. The problem I had was that the md autodetection was running 
> prior to the loading of the RAID card, so no drives were autodetected. I 
> worked around this issue by setting up the /etc/mdadm.conf and then I added 
> "mdadm -A /dev/md0" to rc.local. It seems that the more recent updates RHEL 3 
> U4  (SL 3.0.4) has fixed this issue and I no longer need to manually start the 
> array from rc.local provided my partitions are set to FD (Linux raid 
> autodetect).