You'll need to patch you kernel with the patches from
http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/, probably. I don't think RAID 0.90 has been
integrated into 2.2.15pre
Greg
> -----Original Message-----
> From: root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 3:18 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: PLEASE HELP: mkraid aborts!
>
>
> 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
>
