I'm hoping you can help. I'm upgrading a news server and having trouble with
some drives.
I'm actually trying to format the drives on another machine (these results
are from that machine) prior to taking them out to the remote site. They are
both Dell 2300's with RedHat 5.2 installed. I have upgraded the kernel of
this machine to 2.2.5, including RAID 0 and RAID1 support in that kernel. I
downloaded the 3/7/99 version of Raidtools .90 and installed them.
The array is 6 36 GB IBM drives on two 2940 controllers, to be striped and
used for the news spool directory. /dev/sdh and /dev/sdh1 I added with
mknod, the partitions are of type 0xFD (per the instructions on
automounting).
When I try to mkraid, it aborts. Any ideas on where to look to get this
array up and running?
Thanks!
Paul K. Witting
Manager of Information Systems
Cyveillance - Intelligent Internet Surveillance
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(703) 519-4212
Stuff that might be useful...
[root@visitors raidtools-0.90]# /sbin/mkraid /dev/md0
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/sdc1, 36081958kB, raid superblock at 36081856kB
disk 1: /dev/sdd1, 36081958kB, raid superblock at 36081856kB
disk 2: /dev/sde1, 36081958kB, raid superblock at 36081856kB
disk 3: /dev/sdf1, 36081958kB, raid superblock at 36081856kB
disk 4: /dev/sdg1, 36081958kB, raid superblock at 36081856kB
disk 5: /dev/sdh1, 36081958kB, raid superblock at 36081856kB
mkraid: aborted
[root@visitors raidtools-0.90]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [2 raid0] [3 raid1]
read_ahead not set
md0 : inactive
md1 : inactive
md2 : inactive
md3 : inactive
[root@visitors raidtools-0.90]# cat /etc/raidtab
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 0
nr-raid-disks 6
nr-spare-disks 0
persistent-superblock 1
chunk-size 16
device /dev/sdc1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdd1
raid-disk 1
device /dev/sde1
raid-disk 2
device /dev/sdf1
raid-disk 3
device /dev/sdg1
raid-disk 4
device /dev/sdh1
raid-disk 5
[root@visitors raidtools-0.90]# ls -l /dev/md0
brw------- 1 root root 9, 0 Apr 19 18:57 /dev/md0
[root@visitors raidtools-0.90]# ps auxw
USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
...
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 07:31 0:00 (md_thread)
...
[root@visitors Documentation]# fdisk /dev/sdh
...
Disk /dev/sdh: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4492 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdh1 1 4492 36081958+ fd Unknown
