Ahhh.... soo..... Old sun disks have a non standard format that is
proprietary to Sun. If they have never been re-formatted, they can
cause problems. Simply do a low level re-format and the problem will go
away. BTDT
Michael
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Rick H. Wesson wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> i'm having some trouble with making some old sun disks, that were once
> part of a metadisk raid, a linux raid. linux-2.2.12 infact.
>
> when i run mkraid /dev/md0 I get the following:
>
> disk 0: /dev/sde1, 4449279kB, raid superblock at 4449152kB
> disk 1: /dev/sdf1, 4449279kB, raid superblock at 4449152kB
> mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
>
>
> /proc/mdstat reports
> Personalities : [2 raid0]
> read_ahead not set
> md0 : inactive
> md1 : inactive
> md2 : inactive
> md3 : inactive
>
> and there is not anything left in /var/log/messages about any scssi or
> raid things.
>
> any help would be much appreciated!
>
> thanks,
>
> -rick
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