Hi! I was full of testing the raid5 stuff without getting nowhere, so I tried a raid0, as this one doesn't need to run mkraid.
I think I don't have to repeat the configuration, but just in case... The machine is a Sun Enterprise 3000 with 2 micros and 256 megs of ram, It currently runs 2.2.19 with SMP support, the distribution is Debian Potato 2.2R3, raidtools version 0.42-21. So, I run mdcreate and I get my /etc/mdtab with this contents: /dev/md0 raid0,16k,0,c410a271 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd8 and then I tried: /etc/init.d/raid start but it failed, so I run mdadd -ar manually and still failed. Ok, I rebooted in case there was something wrong because of having been playing with the raid5 stuff, and this is what I get on booting the machine: Loading modules: raid0 raid0 personality registered raid5 raid5 personality registered Adding md devices. sys32_ioctl: Unknown cmd fd(8) cmd(20000901) arg(00000000) /dev/sda1: Invalid argument sys32_ioctl: Unknown cmd fd(8) cmd(20000901) arg(00000000) /dev/sdb1: Invalid argument sys32_ioctl: Unknown cmd fd(8) cmd(20000901) arg(00000000) /dev/sdc1: Invalid argument sys32_ioctl: Unknown cmd fd(8) cmd(20000901) arg(00000000) /dev/sdd8: Invalid argument sys32_ioctl: Unknown cmd fd(8) cmd(20000902) arg(00020002) /dev/md0: Invalid argument As you can see I have the raid0 personality registered, the module loads perfectly, and the partitions are there and I have tried a mke2fs -c on them and they work perfectly, so I just don't know what can be going wrong here. I have set up a raid0, a raid1 and a rai5 at home on a pentium machine, no problems at all, but on the sparc I'm just getting problems all the time, any help will be appreciated, as I don't know what to test. Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net