I had something like this with LVM on IDE disks.. The IDE driver was loaded as a module and probably didnt init things properly..
I found that trying to use the volume just didnt work however if I accessed the physical disk first ( eg dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null etc.. ) things started working... -- Andrew On Tue, 2001-10-09 at 14:06, Clement wrote: > Thank you very much for you response. However, when I did that, I get this > error message: > > # raidstart /dev/md0 > /dev/md0: Invalid argument > > FYI, this is the content of /etc/raidmd0 > > # cat /etc/raidtab > raiddev /dev/md0 > raid-level 1 > nr-raid-disks 2 > persistent-superblock 0 > chunk-size 8 > device /dev/sda1 > raid-disk 0 > device /dev/sdb1 > raid-disk 1 > > Further, I found that this problem is not reiseifs related. It happens no > matter what file system is made. > > Any insight? > > Regards > > Clement > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > Behalf Of Edward Shushkin > > Sent: Wednesday, 10 October 2001 12:44 AM > > To: Clement > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] Linux 2.4.10 + reiserfs + raid > > > > > > Clement wrote: > > > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > > > I just set up a box with RH 7.1, updated with Linux Kernel > > 2.4.10, compiled > > > with reiserfs and raid support. > > > > > > I can define RAID-1 partitions and 'mkreiserfs /dev/md0' and > > mount/umount > > > the partition with no trouble at all. However, once I reboot > > the machine, > > > the raid partitions are not readable any more!!! > > > > > > Do you have any idea and any suggestion to this? > > > > Did you do "raidstart /dev/md0" after reboot? > > Thanks, > > Edward. > > > > > > > > Thank you very much. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Clement > > > >