Hi, I've tried to build a RAID0 system in the last days. But there is a problem that I don't understand. These are the information about the system: - PII/400 - 128 MB Ram - 4.3 GB IDE for system/user etc - 2 x 9.1 GB UW-SCSI to build an 18GB file server with RAID0 (/dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1) - SuSE 6.1, kernel 2.2.4 patched to 2.2.6, raidtools-19990421-0.90.tar.gz And these are the steps I've done already: - install 2.2.4 kernel source - download the patches and patch the source tree to 2.2.6 - download and patch the source tree with raid0145-19990421-2.2.6.gz - configure, compile and install the kernel with activated RAID0 and autodetection support - set the ID of /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 to 0xFD - configure /etc/raidtab for RAID0 - reboot the new kernel - the partitions are detected - mkraid /dev/md0 - mke2fs /dev/md0 - mount -text2 /dev/md0 /data - reboot - the partitions are detected and the raid system is started (cat /proc/mdstats) - mount -text2 /dev/md0 /data -> "wrong fstype.." /etc/raidtab: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 0 nr-raid-disks 2 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size 4 device /dev/sdb1 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdc1 raid-disk 1 BTW: The same procedure works fine with a 2x20MB RAID0 on my test box. So I've changed /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 to 20 MB - and this works too. After a lot of tries I've figured out that problem is around 2 x 400 MB. Partitions greater than this values (and 9.1 GB is greater than 400 MB :-) doesn't work - but WHY? Is there a limit for RAID systems? Can anybody help me? Thanks a lot, Lars -- ______________________________________________________________________ Lars Martin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] softwarebuero m&b http://www.softwarebuero.de