I am trying to make a software raid5, and it seems no matter what I do
mkraid aborts.
My mkraid output looks like this:
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/hde2, 5269320kB, raid superblock at 5269248kB
disk 1: /dev/hdf2, 5269320kB, raid superblock at 5269248kB
disk 2: /dev/hdg2, 5269320kB, raid superblock at 5269248kB
disk 3: /dev/hdh2, 5269320kB, raid superblock at 5269248kB
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
No clues are found in those places
My raidtab looks like this:
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 5
nr-raid-disks 4
nr-spare-disks 0
persistent-superblock 1
chunk-size 8
parity-algorithm left-symmetric
device /dev/hde2
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdf2
raid-disk 1
device /dev/hdg2
raid-disk 2
device /dev/hdh2
raid-disk 3
The kernel is 2.2.15pre17 with the ide.2.2.15-17.20000405.patch.
Everything else is stock Red Hat 6.2 including mkraid v 0.90.0
My hardware setup is:
600Mhz Pentium III on a ASUS P3C2000 Series Motherboard with a Tekram
DC-390U2W (sym53c8XX) and a 9GB IBM SCSI as the system drive. The raid
is 4 WD 6.4GB EIDE drives (WD64AA) hanging off a Promise Ultra66
controller (PDC20262) . I've also tried this with 4 and 8 Maxtor 40GB
drives (94098U8) and other PCI DMA66 controllers (HPT366 & CMD648)
with much the same results.
Any help or suggestions will be much appreciated.
Also the latest raidtools and patches I have been able to find at
kernel.org are dated August 1999. Is this correct?
Thjank you
Clay Claiborne
