"Chris A. Icide" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  I'm trying to build a raid array (preferrably RAID5, but 0 will do) on a
>  Sparc platform.  I've been 98% unsuccessful in doing so.  I've been
>  successful in getting a raid 0 array built under 2.2.1, but as soon as I
>  shut it down, it destroys itself, and is unrecoverable. 

See what raid0.conf.sample from the raidtools-0.90 package says about 
"persistent-superblock"
option.

It's mentioned in the 

>  [root@tonga raidtools-0.90]# ./mkraid /dev/md0
>  handling MD device /dev/md0
>  analyzing super-block
>  disk 0: /dev/sdb4, 8841042kB, raid superblock at 8840960kB
>  disk 1: /dev/sdc2, 8841042kB, raid superblock at 8840960kB
>  disk 2: /dev/sde2, 8841042kB, raid superblock at 8840960kB
>  disk 3: /dev/sdf2, 8841042kB, raid superblock at 8840960kB
>  disk 4: /dev/sdi2, 8841042kB, raid superblock at 8840960kB
>  disk 5: /dev/sdj4, 8841042kB, raid superblock at 8840960kB
>  disk 6: /dev/sdk2, 8841042kB, raid superblock at 8840960kB
>  disk 7: /dev/sdl4, 8841042kB, raid superblock at 8840960kB
>  disk 8: /dev/sdm4, 8841042kB, raid superblock at 8840960kB
>  disk 9: /dev/sdn4, 8841042kB, raid superblock at 8840960kB
>  mkraid: aborted

Probably, you didn't apply to the kernel a relevant raid0145-* patch?

Regards,

Evgeny


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