I'm confused. You're using 2 devices of apparently equal size (which I assume
means they're the same kind of device). However, you have one defined as an
IDE disk and one defined as a SCSI disk in your raidtab file. Could that be the
problem?
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 16 19:38:15 1999
>
> Hello -- there is a lot of confusing and incorrect howto's, etc. out there.
> I was using raid0 with kernel 2.2.5 just fine. I have upgraded the
> kernel to 2.2.12 in an effort to solve a SMP kernel gen problem, and I can
> not get raid0 to work at all.. Any advice, including rtm is fine if
> given the real manual or doc.
>
> Kenny
>
> fdisk -----
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 527 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdb1 1 527 4233096 fd Unknown
>
> Disk /dev/sdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 527 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdc1 1 527 4233096 fd Unknown
>
>
> Config:
>
> Redhat 6.0 with adapetic scsi. I have the partitions defined
> as type fd (fdisk indicates unknown type).
>
> /proc/mdstat indicates:
>
> Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1]
> read_ahead not set
> md0 : inactive
> md1 : inactive
> md2 : inactive
> md3 : inactive
>
> mkraid (raidtools 0.90) gives me:
>
> # ./mkraid --really-force -c /etc/raidtab /dev/md1
> DESTROYING the contents of /dev/md1 in 5 seconds, Ctrl-C if unsure!
> handling MD device /dev/md1
> analyzing super-block
> disk 0: /dev/sdb1, 4233096kB, raid superblock at 4233024kB
> disk 1: /dev/sdc1, 4233096kB, raid superblock at 4233024kB
> mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
> My raidtab follows:
>
> raiddev /dev/md0
> raid-level 0 #
> nr-raid-disks 2 #
> persistent-superblock 1 # set this to 1 if you want autostart
> chunk-size 8
> device /dev/hdb1
> raid-disk 0
> device /dev/sda1
> raid-disk 1
>
> raiddev /dev/md1
> raid-level 0 #
> nr-raid-disks 2 #
> persistent-superblock 1 # set this to 1 if you want autostart
> chunk-size 8
> device /dev/sdb1
> raid-disk 0
> device /dev/sdc1
> raid-disk 1
>
>
--
Christopher Mauritz
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