>
> Hi all
>
> I'm running raidtools-19990421-0.90 on my Redhat6 (glibc2.1) box, with
> kernel 2.2.9
>
> I've compiled the kernel with Raid0 and linear support
>
> I've edited the raidtab-file properly for linear (also tried raid0)
> (I've even used one of the example-files, and just changed the
> harddisk-dev's)
>
> When I run "mkraid /dev/md0' it returns me the following :
>
> handling MD device /dev/md0
> analyzing super-block
> mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
>
> /var/log/messages returns nothing, and /proc/mdstat contains :
>
> Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0]
> read_ahead not set
> md0 : inactive
> md1 : inactive
> md2 : inactive
> md3 : inactive
>
> I have used the drive's I want to 'append' as a raid device successfully
> before, but with the new kernel/distro/raidtools I haven't been able to set
> it up (yet)
>
> I also tried mkraid /dev/md0 --upgrade, and mkraid /dev/md0 --reallyforce,
> and both here is what upgrade gives me :
>
> handling MD device /dev/md0
> analyzing super-block
> upgrading superblock on /dev/sda1 ...
> old superblock:
> MD ID: a92b4efc
> Conforms to MD version: 0.90.0
> preferred minor 0 (md0)
> gvalid_words: 0
> Raid set ID: b0be5442
> Creation time: Sat May 15 14:27:23 1999
> Update time: Sat May 15 17:18:43 1999
> State: 1 (clean)
> Raid level: 0
> Individual disk size: 4094MB (4192832kB)
> Total number of disks: 3
> Number of raid disks: 3
> Number of active disks: 3
> Number of working disks: 3
> Number of failed disks: 0
> Number of spare disks: 0
>
> Disk 0: major 8, minor 1, raid_disk 0, state: 6 (operational, active, sync)
> Disk 1: major 8, minor 17, raid_disk 1, state: 6 (operational, active, sync)
> Disk 2: major 8, minor 33, raid_disk 2, state: 6 (operational, active, sync)
> array needs no upgrade
> mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
>
> Which seems like progress, but it always ends in 'aborted, see... etc'
>
> of course, raidstart doesn't work if mkraid isn't completed successfully,
> but I'll include the output :
>
> /dev/md0: Invalid argument
>
> Hope all that helps :-)
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> -RuleR
>
Well, I know this problem and I'm dealing with it 2... I'm trying to solve it
with help from the others..Just follow the messages with Subject:
mkraid: Aborted.. done patch/0.9/mknod
Greetings
Wim Fournier
