I ran the alpha patches and installed the new raidtools and things seem to
work. Why isn't the alpha code part of the new kernels, specially if they
don't work? (or is it just me? :))
- anders
-----Original Message-----
From: m. allan noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Anders Lindh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2. toukokuuta 1999 21:00
Subject: Re: mkraid: aborted???
>
>
>"so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know.
>money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
>
>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
