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On Sun, 2 May 1999, Anders Lindh wrote:
> mkraid: aborted
look in var/log/messages, also run dmesg
>
> The contents of /proc/mdstat remains the same after mkraid is done. I've
> compiled my kernel (2.2.7 on a RedHat 6.0 box) with raid support (left
> raid 1 support out, though).
>
did you patch the kernel? i have 4 machines running software raid under RH
5.9.10 with 2.2.6 kernel. no problems. just make sure to patch the kernel,
and get the coresponding raidtools from
ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha
> Any idéas?
>
> Contents of /etc/raidtab:
>
> raiddev /dev/md0
> raid-level linear
> persistent-superblock 1
> chunk-size 16
> nr-raid-disks 2
> nr-spare-disks 0
> device /dev/hda3
> raid-disk 0
> device /dev/hdc1
> raid-disk 1
>
>
i have found in older installations that mkraid
sometimes did not like the whitespace or lack thereof
in my raid tab. keep yours with the same spacing as the
original.
allan
