Re: [RAID-soft,ATA,WD] problems with a RAID5 disc not detected

[Neil Brown]

On Sunday February 10, [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> *However*, every time I boot, even though the disc is properly detected and
> its partition table read, the new WD (40 Gb) discs's partitions are ignored
> by the RAID5 autodetector. When the machine hits runlevel 2, it is possible
> to manually raidhotadd back the partitions, and after the reconstruction is
> complete, things seem to work normally, but there is obviously something
> wrong.

Are you sure that you set the partition type properly for the
partitions in the new drive. i.e. set it to FD ??

NeilBrown