Hello RAID hackers,

I'm trying to create a couple software RAID-1 arrays on a new Dell 
server my employer just purchased. Here's quick rundown of my current 
setup:

Adapter 7890 SCSI Controller
3 Quantum Viking II 9.1 GB SCSI drives
RedHat 6.0 w/ 2.2.10 kernel (compiled with RAID-1 support)
raidtools 0.90 compiled from distributed source (ie, non-RedHat)

My /etc/raidtab looks like this:
raiddev /dev/md0
        raid-level      1
        nr-raid-disks   3
        nr-spare-disks  0
        chunk-size      4

        device          /dev/sda2
        raid-disk       0
        device          /dev/sdb2
        raid-disk       1
        device          /dev/sdc2
        raid-disk       2

raiddev /dev/md1
        raid-level      1
        nr-raid-disks   3
        nr-spare-disks  0
        chunk-size      4

        device          /dev/sda4
        raid-disk       0
        device          /dev/sdb4
        raid-disk       1
        device          /dev/sdc4
        raid-disk       2

When I run mkraid --force /de/md0 (because sda2 has a filesystem on it):

DESTROYING the contents of /dev/md0 in 5 seconds, Ctrl-C if unsure!
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/sda2, 2104515kB, raid superblock at 2104448kB
disk 1: /dev/sdb2, 2104515kB, raid superblock at 2104448kB
disk 2: /dev/sdc2, 2104515kB, raid superblock at 2104448kB
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.

I can't figure out why mkraid is aborting. No messages show up in the
syslog, and I get what looks like a typical response from /proc/mdstat:

Personalities : [3 raid1]
read_ahead not set
md0 : inactive
md1 : inactive
md2 : inactive
md3 : inactive

I've already the Software-RAID HOWTO (both the LDP version and the more
up-to-date version included in the raidtools distribution). There's lots
of useful information in there, but it all applies once you've gotten
past the point I'm stuck at. ^_^

What am I doing wrong? I'm having difficulty finding any sort of 
diagnostics to help understand this problem. Any help offered would be
greatly appreciated.

Regards,

-zack

-- 
Zack Hobson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.setsystems.com/~zhobson/

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