On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 05:27:14PM -0700, JT wrote:
> Having problems getting mkraid to create the /dev/md0
> raid device.. here is my info:
>
> System SuSE 6.1 - Clean Install
> Kernel - 2.2.10 - with md support for linearr, raid0 and raid1
> IDE boot Drive
> 2 SCSI disks, same size as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
> raidtools-0.90
Which date? The latest is raidtools-19990713-0.90
> I did NOT use the patch (raid145-0.36.3-2.0.30) as it
> complains when I try to patch it against the 2.2.10
> kernel.
There is a patch for the 2.2.10 kernel on you favourite kernel.org
mirror, as there is for nearly every 2.2 kernel. The patch isn't
strictly needed, check the mailinglist archive for the changes.
> Setup /etc/raidtab as documented in the HOWTO.
>
> Command: mkraid --really-force /dev/md0
>
> analyzing super-block
> disk 0: /dev/sda1, 722893kb, raid superblock at 722816kB
> disk 1: /dev/sdb1, 722893kb, raid superblock at 722816kB
> mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /porc/mdstat for potentail clues.
>
> /proc/mdstat shows all inactive md devices.
> syslog (/var/log/messages) does not show any error messages
> at all.
Get/compile the latest tools, as mentioned above, and retry. If it still
fails, tell us again :)
Erik.
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