Bug#521547: is experimental mdadm deb available

[Chris Dumont]

Hi,

After upgrading from 2.6.26 to 2.6.32 (backports) kernel I'm having trouble booting. The "Assembling all MD arrays" portion of /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/mdadm needs to wait until all disks are available. I tried using "udevsettle 10" which didn't seem to change anything and didn't work (and I gather isn't the correct way either). Currently a "sleep 10" in the script hacks around the problem. See http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~chrisd/debian/ for crude pictures of the relevant portions of the boot process.

The hardware is an IBM x346 server with an Adaptec AIC-7902B U320 scsi card. They've always been slow to be recognized during the boot.

Your experimental 3.1.1-1+incremental version of mdadm may address the problem. How do I get this version or other current experimental version?

Thanks,
Chris D