System Administration wrote:
>
> 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.
AFAIK the SuSE kernel has not the RAID-0.90 patches included.
So you have two possibilities:
1) use the old raid tools which came with your distribution or
2) patch the kernel with the new RAID patches which you can get at
http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/
juri
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