Hi again,
don't forget, what I have written the mail before, but this day I got the same
failure after the attempt to initialize two disks as a raidarray which were
accessed by mdutils-0.41 before (SuSE 6.0).
As I see now (as I am involved myself) the output of mkraid shows two different
superblocks per disk. Maybe that the superblock written by mdutils is still
laying on the disks and wasn't removed after a fdisk or a mke2fs on those disks.
I have seen something similar on the HP raidarrays for raid5 (you can't exchange
the disks between the arrays; they wouldn't be accepted for writing). Maybe in
that case you have to do a low-level-format on the disks (supported by the
controller) - I will try this tomorrow.
But the problem is just interesting... because changing a raidarray from raid0
to raid1 or raid5 which was handled by the 0.90-raidtools before just works.
The advice Tony Wildish gives you by mail is also known by me, so I don't wanna
reply it.
The problem that I still got is the reboot with enabled raids in /etc/fstab. I
have always to start them up manually - don't know why, because there were
running as I shutdown the system and a recompilation of the kernel doesn't help
either.
Any suggestions?
Dietmar
Dietmar Stein wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> as I recognized so far, you haven't patched the kernel yet. Am I right?
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