I'm setting up a Raid 0 stripe on a news server.  I have 3 IDE drives
for just the stripe, installed and ready to go.  I am running RH 5.1 on
a 2.0.34 Kernel.  I have compiled in support for the Promise Fast Track
RAID card and Raid 0 and Linear stripes.

I installed and compiled the Raid tools -0.4.1.  Ran the MDCreate for
the /etc/mdtab and show the following:
# mdtab entry for /dev/md0
/dev/md0       raid0,4k,0,7edbac28     /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdd1

Now when I execute the mdadd -ar I get and Operation not supported by
device error.

In /proc/mdstatus I show the following:
Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0]
read_ahead not set
md0 : inactive
md1 : inactive
md2 : inactive
md3 : inactive
mdstat (END)

Under /dev I do have a device named md0.

Does anyone have any ideas?  I'm fresh out.  The documentation is pretty
vague and I found the answers to the other problems I was having in the
Archive.  But this one has stumped me and no one has posted a similar
question that I have seen.  I am pretty new to system administration
under Linux. ;)

Also which would be a better way to go for a news server under Linux,
Raid 0 or a linear stripe?

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Sincerely,


Mark Atkinson
System Administrator
EagleNet Online

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