RE: Could not change configuration.

1999-11-29 Thread Bruno Prior
n raid-1 mode. Try "raidstart --really-force /dev/md0" and see if that makes a difference. Cheers, Bruno Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dong Hu > Sent: 25 November 1999 22:2

Re: Could not change configuration.

1999-11-26 Thread Alex H. Vandenham
Once it is set up and working, linux raid it is very stable. In a "production environment" , the type of re-configuration you are doing is not very common and I agree that the raid tools don't handle every possible situation. As for your problem, I think you could still use my suggestion. Boo

Re: Could not change configuration.

1999-11-25 Thread Danilo Godec
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Dong Hu wrote: > Now I want to change the configuration to raid0, > so I edit the /etc/raidtab file, > issue mkraid --force /dev/md0, I suppose you did stop the raid device ('raidstop /dev/md0') first? Then I think you should use --really-force (this is not in the document

Re: Could not change configuration.

1999-11-25 Thread Dong Hu
I am only using a partition of the disk (sda3, sdb3) for the raid, so I don't want to reinstall everything. Any other way to wipe out the persistent "superblocks"? I tried to "mke2fs" on the patition, which did not work. When I tested "raidsetfaulty, raidhotremove, raidhotadd" on raid1, I also g

Re: Could not change configuration.

1999-11-25 Thread Alex H. Vandenham
This (almost same) problem happened to me as well. It was solved with a wipe of all information from the disk by using DOS fdisk to eliminate the partitions and overwrite the MBR with fdisk /mbr . That worked and I was able to create the new raid configurations. Could it be that the "persiste

Could not change configuration.

1999-11-25 Thread Dong Hu
I am testing raid tools on linux and I have a problem. I have two same SCSI harddisk and have one same size partition on each harddisk, sda3 and sdb3. I configured sda3 and sdb3 to a raid 1(mirror) with no problem. Now I want to change the configuration to raid0, so I edit the /etc/raidtab fil