A clarification and a correction: 1) I'm using raidtools-0.90
(19990824) and 2) RAID0 was started with older mdtools and *not*
mkraid.
System Administration writes:
> I'm almost certain this a FAQ (or soon will be) but I can't find the
> answer. SuSE V6.4 seems to have a problem with RAID1; mkraid fails
> with "invalid raid superblock magic (3ff9fe) on block 2096320". The
> value of the magic and block number vary with the partition size, of
> course, but all attempts to run RAID1 terminate this way. I can get
> the same raidtab file to run under RedHat 6.2 but RedHat won't build
> netatalk + asun (there's a yp symbol in a RedHat library which won't
> resolve) while SuSE 6.4 has no problem and I need netatalk support.
> RAID0 works well under SuSE 6.4. I haven't tried RAID5.
>
> Rick