Can't reassemble sw raid after moving from x86 to sparc

[guido-pe]

Hi,

I've recently moved 2 500GB sata hard disks from an x86 based machine into a sparc machine, hoping I could keep using them like I did in the old machine.

Both disks have four partitions, the first three of which are part of different raid-1 arrays, mirrored across the discs. (i.e. sda1 + sdb1 -> md1, sda2 + sdb2 -> md2 and sda3 + sdb3 -> md3)

The old machine used to boot from the first raid array, but the new one boots from a seperate disc.

After booting up, I find the following lines in dmesg:

[Sadako]

I think the problem is that x86 systems are little endian, whereas sparc seems to be big endian.

From the mdadm man page;

[guido-pe]

Thank you, that did the trick.