i want to use my 3 4gb uw harddiscs in a raid5 combination
i do the steps discribed in the howto at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO-4.html
my /etc/raidtab
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 5
nr-raid-disks 3
chunk-size 32
# Spare disks for hot reconstruction
nr-spare-disks 0
parity-algorithm left-symmetric
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/sdb1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdc1
raid-disk 1
device /dev/sda6
failed-disk 2
the /dev/sda6 is my rootfilesystem, set to failed
like in the howto
[root@mrqserv2 linux]# fdisk -ul /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 527 cylinders
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 63 8466254 4233096 fd Linux raid autodetect
[root@mrqserv2 linux]# fdisk -ul /dev/sdc
Disk /dev/sdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 555 cylinders
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 63 8466254 4233096 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdc2 8466255 8916074 224910 83 Linux
[root@mrqserv2 linux]# fdisk -ul /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 553 cylinders
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 48194 24066 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda2 48195 8883944 4417875 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 48258 321299 136521 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda6 321363 8883944 4281291 83 Linux
but when i do mkraid, i get an error :-(((
[root@mrqserv2 linux]# mkraid /dev/md0
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/sdb1, 4233096kB, raid superblock at 4233024kB
disk 1: /dev/sdc1, 4233096kB, raid superblock at 4233024kB
disk 2: /dev/sda6, failed
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
[root@mrqserv2 linux]#
what is wrong here ?
mfg mrq1
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Total of 2 processors activated (1992.29 BogoMIPS).
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