RE: Raid-1 problem -STILL

1999-06-29 Thread Bruno Prior
> Create a file /etc/mdtab with > 'mdcreate /etc/raidtab'. Do a 'mdadd -ar', which starts the raid set(s) from > /etc/mdtab (check out /proc/mdstat that the set is working). Then format > /dev/md1 with 'mke2fs /dev/md1'. After this, you can do the 'mount /dev/md1 > /mnt/spare' and go on. Note

Re: Raid-1 problem -STILL

1999-06-29 Thread Lawrence Dickson
At 10:25 AM 6/29/99 -0400, you wrote: With a similar problem in Raid-5 I had to use mkinitrd to add the raid personalities to initrd too - see man pages. Larry Dickson >I hate to be so thick. I'm still trying to get raid-1 working. Someone has been good enough to help me out, but I think I'

Re: Raid-1 problem -STILL

1999-06-29 Thread Thomas Seidel
Steve, create your raid definition file /etc/raidtab with # raid-1 configuration of device /dev/md1 raiddev /dev/md1 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 device /dev/hda5 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc5 raid-disk 1 Then do a 'mkraid -f /etc/raidtab'. You will need th

Raid-1 problem -STILL

1999-06-29 Thread Steve McPherson
I hate to be so thick. I'm still trying to get raid-1 working. Someone has been good enough to help me out, but I think I'm wearing out my welcome. Here's what I have so far: I'm close, but I still don't have the cigar. Here's what I have: I'm using RH 6.0. I have two WD 4.3 gb HDD's. I'm