After eagerly applying the 1.62 upgrade, I was able to finally have NL see my 5TB. I formatted it, put about 1TB worth of data on it, all the while getting great performance (about 80% of my 1Gb/s NIC).
I had 4x500 PATA's that I took offline once I determined the SATA RAID0 vol was going to work. Everything was still right as rain. I did two things that may or may not have anything to do with this problem. I reinstated one of the 500 PATA's, which kicked my DISK-0 SATA volume to DISK-1, and I had set the time from the default of whatever 2000 to the current day/time. Thinking the reinstating of the 500GB drive was the cause, I took it offline again, but of course that didn't help.
I've tried a thorough scan (that took almost 24 hours), and no problems. The file system is journaled (by default). Attached is the log:
System Message Log:
Feb 23 01:59:37 [3] klogd started: BusyBox v1.12.1 (2009-11-19 21:21:30 UTC)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [3] Linux version 2.6.30.3.CORE3 (root@DevBox) (gcc version 4.1.2 (SE 4.1.2 p1.0.2)) #1 Mon Jan 25 02:33:02 UTC 2010
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] KERNEL supported cpus:
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Intel GenuineIntel
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] AMD AuthenticAMD
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] NSC Geode by NSC
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Cyrix CyrixInstead
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Centaur CentaurHauls
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Transmeta GenuineTMx86
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Transmeta TransmetaCPU
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] UMC UMC UMC UMC
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fffc000 (usable)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] BIOS-e820: 000000001fffc000 - 000000001ffff000 (ACPI data)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] BIOS-e820: 000000001ffff000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] DMI 2.3 present.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] last_pfn = 0x1fffc max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-000000001fffc000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] 0000000000 - 0000400000 page 4k
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] 0000400000 - 001fc00000 page 2M
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] 001fc00000 - 001fffc000 page 4k
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] kernel direct mapping tables up to 1fffc000 @ 7000-c000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] RAMDISK: 0f75d000 - 0ffff80d
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] ACPI: RSDP 000f6840 00014 (v00 ASUS )
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] ACPI: RSDT 1fffc000 0002C (v01 ASUS P4S533 42302E31 MSFT 31313031)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] ACPI: FACP 1fffc100 00074 (v01 ASUS P4S533 42302E31 MSFT 31313031)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] ACPI: DSDT 1fffc180 0255F (v01 ASUS P4S533 00001000 MSFT 0100000B)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] ACPI: FACS 1ffff000 00040
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] ACPI: BOOT 1fffc040 00028 (v01 ASUS P4S533 42302E31 MSFT 31313031)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [3] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [3] 511MB LOWMEM available.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] mapped low ram: 0 - 1fffc000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] low ram: 0 - 1fffc000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] node 0 low ram: 00000000 - 1fffc000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] node 0 bootmap 00001000 - 00005000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] (7 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 001fffc000]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] #1 [0000100000 - 000039b83c] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000100000 - 000039b83c]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] #2 [000f75d000 - 000ffff80d] RAMDISK ==> [000f75d000 - 000ffff80d]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] #3 [000009f400 - 0000100000] BIOS reserved ==> [000009f400 - 0000100000]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] #4 [000039c000 - 000039e14c] BRK ==> [000039c000 - 000039e14c]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] #5 [0000007000 - 0000008000] PGTABLE ==> [0000007000 - 0000008000]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] #6 [0000001000 - 0000005000] BOOTMAP ==> [0000001000 - 0000005000]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] Zone PFN ranges:
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] DMA 0x00000000 -> 0x00001000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] Normal 0x00001000 -> 0x0001fffc
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] HighMem 0x0001fffc -> 0x0001fffc
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] Movable zone start PFN for each node
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x0000009f
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0001fffc
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] On node 0 totalpages: 130971
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c031d560, node_mem_map c1000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] DMA zone: 3967 pages, LIFO batch:0
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] Normal zone: 992 pages used for memmap
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] Normal zone: 125980 pages, LIFO batch:31
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Using APIC driver default
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xe408
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Found and enabled local APIC!
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] nr_irqs_gsi: 16
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:dec00000)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 129947
Feb 23 01:59:37 [3] Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 rw
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Enabling fast FPU save and restore. done.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support. done.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Initializing CPU#0
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] NR_IRQS:288
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] Fast TSC calibration using PIT
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] Detected 1815.958 MHz processor.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] console [tty0] enabled
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Initializing HighMem for node 0 (00000000:00000000)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Memory: 507508k/524272k available (1523k kernel code, 16036k reserved, 667k data, 208k init, 0k highmem)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] virtual kernel memory layout:
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] fixmap : 0xfffa9000 - 0xfffff000 ( 344 kB)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] kB)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] vmalloc : 0xe07fc000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 496 MB)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xdfffc000 ( 511 MB)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] .init : 0xc0326000 - 0xc035a000 ( 208 kB)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] .data : 0xc027cfdb - 0xc0323e14 ( 667 kB)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc027cfdb (1523 kB)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode.Ok.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=128, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency 3631.91 BogoMIPS (lpj=7263832)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz stepping 04
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Checking 'hlt' instruction. OK.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: Core revision 20090320
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 1e20)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] net_namespace: 296 bytes
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] NET: Registered protocol family 16
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: bus type pci registered
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf1580, last bus=1
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] bio: create slab at 0
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: (supports S0 S5)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: No dock devices found.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xe8000000-0xebffffff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pci 0000:00:02.0: Enabling SiS 96x SMBus
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:02.1: reg 20 io port: [0xe600-0xe61f]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:02.5: reg 20 io port: [0xd800-0xd80f]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:09.0: reg 10 io port: [0xa800-0xa8ff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:09.0: reg 14 64bit mmio: [0xe5000000-0xe50000ff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:09.0: reg 1c 64bit mmio: [0xef000000-0xef7fffff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:09.0: reg 30 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x00ffff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:09.0: supports D1 D2
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pci 0000:00:09.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pci 0000:00:09.0: PME# disabled
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:0a.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xe4800000-0xe4803fff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:0a.0: reg 14 io port: [0xa400-0xa4ff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:0a.0: reg 30 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x01ffff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:0a.0: supports D1 D2
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pci 0000:00:0a.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pci 0000:00:0a.0: PME# disabled
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:0d.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xe4000000-0xe4000fff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:0d.0: supports D1 D2
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pci 0000:00:0d.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pci 0000:00:0d.0: PME# disabled
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:0d.1: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xe3800000-0xe3800fff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:0d.1: supports D1 D2
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pci 0000:00:0d.1: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pci 0000:00:0d.1: PME# disabled
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:0d.2: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xe3000000-0xe30000ff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:0d.2: supports D1 D2
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pci 0000:00:0d.2: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pci 0000:00:0d.2: PME# disabled
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xe7000000-0xe7ffffff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 14 32bit mmio: [0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 30 32bit mmio: [0xefff0000-0xefffffff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:01.0: bridge 32bit mmio: [0xe7000000-0xe7ffffff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:01.0: bridge 32bit mmio pref: [0xeff00000-0xfebfffff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci_bus 0000:00: on NUMA node 0
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 *12 14 15)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *9
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *9
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] printing PIC contents
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . PIC IMR: fdfa
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . PIC IRR: 1c20
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . PIC ISR: 0000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . PIC ELCR: 0200
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] printing local APIC contents on CPU#0/0:
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] . APIC ID: 00000000 (0)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] . APIC VERSION: 00050014
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC TASKPRI: 00000000 (00)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC PROCPRI: 00000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC LDR: 01000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC DFR: ffffffff
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC SPIV: 000001ff
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC ISR field:
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC TMR field:
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC IRR field:
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] 00000000000000010000000000000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC ESR: 00000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC ICR: 00000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC ICR2: 00000000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC LVTT: 000200ef
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC LVTPC: 00010000
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC LVT0: 00001700
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC LVT1: 00000400
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC LVTERR: 000000fe
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC TMICT: 0000628a
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC TMCCT: 00001f6d
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] . APIC TDCR: 00000003
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] number of MP IRQ sources: 0.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] testing the IO APIC.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] IRQ to pin mappings:
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] done.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pnp: PnP ACPI init
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: bus type pnp registered
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 15 devices
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] system 00:00: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] system 00:00: iomem range 0xf0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] system 00:00: iomem range 0x100000-0x1fffffff could not be reserved
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] system 00:00: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfecfffff could not be reserved
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] system 00:00: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfeefffff could not be reserved
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] system 00:02: ioport range 0xe400-0xe47f has been reserved
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] system 00:02: ioport range 0xe480-0xe4ff has been reserved
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] system 00:02: ioport range 0xe600-0xe61f has been reserved
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] system 00:02: ioport range 0x480-0x48f has been reserved
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] system 00:02: iomem range 0xffee0000-0xffefffff has been reserved
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] system 00:03: iomem range 0xfffe0000-0xffffffff could not be reserved
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] system 00:04: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] system 00:0e: ioport range 0x3f0-0x3f1 has been reserved
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pci 0000:00:01.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:01
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pci 0000:00:01.0: IO window: disabled
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pci 0000:00:01.0: MEM window: 0xe7000000-0xe7ffffff
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] pci 0000:00:01.0: PREFETCH window: 0x000000eff00000-0x000000febfffff
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:00:01.0: setting latency timer to 64
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 0 io: [0x00-0xffff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 1 mem: [0x000000-0xffffffff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 1 mem: [0xe7000000-0xe7ffffff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 2 pref mem [0xeff00000-0xfebfffff]
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] NET: Registered protocol family 2
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] TCP reno registered
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] NET: Registered protocol family 1
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] rootfs image is not initramfs (junk in compressed archive); looks like an initrd
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Freeing initrd memory: 8842k freed
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Simple Boot Flag at 0x3a set to 0x80
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996
okir@monad.swb.de).
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] msgmni has been set to 1009
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] io scheduler noop registered (default)
Feb 23 01:59:37 [1] pci 0000:01:00.0: Boot video device
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] brd: module loaded
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] loop: module loaded
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect please boot with i8042.nopnp
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all m
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] ice
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] cpuidle: using governor ladder
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] TCP cubic registered
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Using IPI Shortcut mode
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0
Feb 23 01:59:37 [3] RAMDISK: CORE3 root image found at block 0
Feb 23 01:59:37 [4] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) on device 1:0.
Feb 23 01:59:37 [2] Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
Feb 23 01:59:38 [2] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Feb 23 01:59:38 [2] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Feb 23 01:59:39 [2] rtc_cmos 00:06: RTC can wake from S4
Feb 23 01:59:39 [2] rtc_cmos 00:06: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
Feb 23 01:59:39 [2] rtc0: alarms up to one month, 242 bytes nvram
Feb 23 01:59:40 [2] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input1
Feb 23 01:59:40 [2] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input2
Feb 23 01:59:40 [2] ACPI: Power Button [PWRF]
Feb 23 01:59:40 [2] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input3
Feb 23 01:59:40 [2] ACPI: Power Button [PWRB]
Feb 23 01:59:40 [5] ACPI: Invalid PBLK length [5]
Feb 23 01:59:40 [2] processor ACPI_CPU:00: registered as cooling_device0
Feb 23 01:59:40 [2] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
Feb 23 01:59:40 [2] sis5513 0000:00:02.5: SiS 961 MuTIOL IDE UDMA100 controller
Feb 23 01:59:40 [2] sis5513 0000:00:02.5: IDE controller (0x1039:0x5513 rev 0xd0)
Feb 23 01:59:40 [2] sis5513 0000:00:02.5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Feb 23 01:59:40 [2] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807
Feb 23 01:59:40 [2] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f
Feb 23 01:59:40 [1] Probing IDE interface ide0.
Feb 23 01:59:41 [1] Probing IDE interface ide1.
Feb 23 01:59:41 [2] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Feb 23 01:59:41 [2] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Feb 23 01:59:41 [3] SCSI subsystem initialized
Feb 23 01:59:41 [1] libata version 3.00 loaded.
Feb 23 01:59:42 [4] 3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.012.
Feb 23 01:59:42 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
Feb 23 01:59:42 [1] PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
Feb 23 01:59:42 [2] 3w-9xxx 0000:00:09.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Feb 23 01:59:44 [2] scsi0 : 3ware 9000 Storage Controller
Feb 23 01:59:44 [4] 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Found a 3ware 9000 Storage Controller at 0xe5000000, IRQ: 10.
Feb 23 01:59:44 [4] 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Firmware FE9X 2.08.00.009, BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.052, Ports: 12.
Feb 23 01:59:44 [3] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access AMCC 9500S-12 DISK 2.08 PQ: 0 ANSI: 3
Feb 23 01:59:44 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 12
Feb 23 01:59:44 [1] PCI: setting IRQ 12 as level-triggered
Feb 23 01:59:44 [2] skge 0000:00:0a.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 12 (level, low) -> IRQ 12
Feb 23 01:59:44 [2] skge 1.13 addr 0xe4800000 irq 12 chip Yukon rev 1
Feb 23 01:59:44 [2] skge eth0: addr 00:13:46:82:d4:fd
Feb 23 01:59:44 [2] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
Feb 23 01:59:44 [2] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
Feb 23 01:59:44 [2] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
Feb 23 01:59:44 [2] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
Feb 23 01:59:44 [2] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0d.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Feb 23 01:59:44 [2] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0d.0: OHCI Host Controller
Feb 23 01:59:44 [2] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Feb 23 01:59:44 [2] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0d.0: irq 10, io mem 0xe4000000
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0d.1: PCI INT B -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 12 (level, low) -> IRQ 12
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0d.1: OHCI Host Controller
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0d.1: irq 12, io mem 0xe3800000
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
Feb 23 01:59:45 [4] Warning! ehci_hcd should always be loaded before uhci_hcd and ohci_hcd, not after
Feb 23 01:59:45 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 5
Feb 23 01:59:45 [1] PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0d.2: PCI INT C -> Link[LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0d.2: EHCI Host Controller
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0d.2: irq 5, io mem 0xe3000000
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0d.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 0.95
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
Feb 23 01:59:45 [2] hub 3-0:1.0: 5 ports detected
Feb 23 01:59:46 [2] usb 3-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Feb 23 01:59:46 [2] usb 3-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Feb 23 01:59:47 [4] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Feb 23 01:59:47 [3] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Feb 23 01:59:47 [3] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 9765519360 512-byte hardware sectors: (4.99 TB/4.54 TiB)
Feb 23 01:59:47 [3] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Feb 23 01:59:47 [1] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
Feb 23 01:59:47 [3] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Feb 23 01:59:47 [3] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Feb 23 01:59:47 [2] sda:
Feb 23 01:59:47 [2] sda1
Feb 23 01:59:47 [3] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Feb 23 01:59:47 [2] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver.
Feb 23 01:59:47 [2] scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Feb 23 01:59:47 [1] usb-storage: device found at 2
Feb 23 01:59:47 [1] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Feb 23 01:59:47 [2] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
Feb 23 01:59:47 [2] USB Mass Storage support registered.
Feb 23 01:59:52 [3] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 1033 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Feb 23 01:59:52 [1] usb-storage: device scan complete
Feb 23 01:59:52 [3] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 1024000 512-byte hardware sectors: (524 MB/500 MiB)
Feb 23 01:59:52 [3] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Feb 23 01:59:52 [1] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
Feb 23 01:59:52 [5] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Feb 23 01:59:52 [5] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Feb 23 01:59:52 [2] sdb:
Feb 23 01:59:52 [2] sdb1
Feb 23 01:59:52 [3] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
Feb 23 02:00:10 [2] skge eth0: enabling interface
Feb 23 02:00:12 [2] skge eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both
I can blow off the array and rebuild, but that will take me another 2-3 days, and I'm especially hesitant since I can't determine what the problem is. NL can definitely "see" it, it simply FAILS the array even though it can successfully do a thorough scan on it. Of course the volume is set to RW. It's just not getting mounted. Any ideas?