well, everything seems to be well prepared with your raid-1 array - I had
the same problem weeks ago - i think you will have to apply the raid-kernel
patch ( matching 2.2.14 can be found at http://people.redhat.com/mingo/ )
before making your raid-arry wirth mkraid...
sami
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Fookson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 2:14 AM
Subject: mkraid aborts without any useful info written to syslog
> I'm having problems configuring a 2-disk RAID-1 array on an i686
> machine. The machine has Redhat 6.2 installed
> but the kernel is built from the 2.2.14 source from ftp.kernel.org, with
> the ide patch applied to support the Promise PDC20246
> ATA66 controller. The raid array is to be on two identical 17Gb
> partitions on two disks, each of which is a master on the
> ATA66 channels (the disks work fine on their own). The kernel has md
> support, as well as all raid levels, built-in.
>
> Here is the output of "mkraid"
>
> ----
>
> mkraid /dev/md0
> handling MD device /dev/md0
> analyzing super-block
> disk 0: /dev/hde1, 16603146kB, raid superblock at 16603072kB
> disk 1: /dev/hdg1, 16603146kB, raid superblock at 16603072kB
> mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
>
> ----
>
> but there is nothing in the syslog to reflect the failure, and
> /proc/mdstat looks as it did before "mkraid" was run:
>
> (...)
