Day two, trying to get this horrid raid5 setup on the server.
(mind you I've done multiple raid1 setups on this and other boxes no problem)
I don't think it's the kernel, the dmesg shows the sil3114 card detected and each of the seagate sata drives detected just fine.
I've run zerofill on all four drives to be sure they are clean, ran each one through cfdisk and made one 80g partition of linux raid (fd) on each drive.
I have run the mdadm create raid command 4x now and each time it's solid, persistent superblock and clean after it's done building the array.
I even mounted it under /temp the first time and copied 132G of data from two volume groups with no issues.
That was however until I rebooted.
Then it fell apart, four times now and for two days straight. I made the array, create the reiserfs file system and mount it, no problems.
I'm going to fix the garage door opener now, I need a break or I'm going to run screaming down the street buck naked, and NOBODY wants to see that.
Currently building, I'll post output after it's done.
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath]
md2 : active raid5 sdd1[4] sdc1[2] sdb1[1] sda1[0]
234444288 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3] [UUU_]
[=======>.............] recovery = 38.9% (30406512/78148096) finish=64.0min speed=12428K/sec
md1 : active raid1 hdc1[1] hdb1[0]
30018112 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md0 : active raid1 hdg1[1] hde1[0]
117218176 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: