Thornton Prime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I installed software RAID on a RedHat 5.2 machine last week. I had > previously upgraded the kernel to 2.2.3. Everything went well. > i take it you did not patch the kernel before you installed it? > It is RAID5 on 5 Seagate SCSI drives on a BusLogic board, totalling > around 35G of available disk space. > > Last night we had a power outage. The system restarted without problems > except for the RAID. The was successfully recognized by the raidadd > command, but it failed to start with the raidrun command. I ran ckraid > with a number of different options, all ran successfully, but raidrun > still failed. anything in /var/log/messages? what did raidrun say when it failed? > > I downloaded, compiled and installed the latest RAID tools from RedHat. > Supposedly all I need is raidstart, but this simply fails with an > \'invalid argument\'. that should not be needed, since the raidtools you had most likely work on an unpatched 2.2.x kernel. did you make the raid5 driver as a module in ther kernel? did you insmod it? do an lsmod to see. allan
