Hi there!
A friend has a dell 4550
Documentation with Opensuse 11 on it. It has 4 drives, one to boot, three 160 Gig for the RAID 5 array.
After hooking up a monitor (VNC does not work at that stage) I can read the error message:
md1: bitmap file is out of date (150 < 151_ -- forcing full recovery
md1: bitmap initialisation failed: -5
md1: failed to create bitmap (-5)
mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md/1: Input/output error.
and so on. It ends with
"repair filesystem"
I am searching and reading for the past days and find no solution for this.
I tried forcing the array (also with that "echo" thingi), dis- and reattaching the drives (both hardware and software), but all has not worked thus far.
Some of the messages I got were like
"bitmap file is out of date" (151/150)
"mdadm: device /dev/sdb not suitable for any style of array"
"Uuu" 1
But searching for those terms yielded no practical info.
All drives are OK hardwarewise, checked them sector by sector.
I am totally new to Linux unfortunately, but try to learn this amazing OS.
I read into mdadm (and I'm lost) and as mentioned tried several approaches.
Has anybody encountered this weird "bitmap initialisation failed: -5" error? searching it revealed no resulst, so this might be a new thing?
Thanks!