(No more) Silent failure during attampted RAID1 creation :-)

Hello everybody! I would like to thank you for your help. I am now a proud admin of a /dev/md0 (RAID1) :) I would like to thank especially to : Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and to : Andy Poling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kelina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bruno Prior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whose hints helped me to s

Re: Silent failure during attampted RAID1 creation

I tried out Mandrake 7.0 (oxygen) beta looks like they have a patched kernel with 0.9x raidtools and a groovy gui for adding devices call diskdrake   took me 5 minutes to setup 3 18GB disks for linear..   Linux has come a long way indeed!   Stephen Waters wrote: are you using 0.9x raid? i am, and

Re: Silent failure during attampted RAID1 creation - more

I am seing the samproblems with lineaar mode and RedHat6.1/Mandrake 6.1  going to try Mandrake 7.0-beta     Wojciech Ku¶ wrote: re-hi! (this is a small addition to my prev. mail) I forgot... /etc/raidtab - isn't it useful to know? ;) Here it goes: raiddev /dev/md8     raid-level 

Re: Silent failure during attampted RAID1 creation

are you using 0.9x raid? i am, and my raidtab manpage says the value is in KB. also, the HOWTO says it's in KB: http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO-4.html#ss4.8 -s Andy Poling wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, [ISO-8859-2] Wojciech Ku¶ wrote: > > raiddev /dev/md8 >

RE: Silent failure during attampted RAID1 creation

> Unfortunately, mkraid refuses to prepare the devices for me: [snip] > and the uname: Linux server 2.2.13 #2 SMP Tue Dec 28 21:52:25 CET 1999 > i686 unknown (Yes, it really has such an original hostname ;-> ) > Distro: Mandrake 6.1, raidtools-0.90. You need to patch the kernel with the raid-patc

Re: Silent failure during attampted RAID1 creation

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, [ISO-8859-2] Wojciech Ku¶ wrote: > raiddev /dev/md8 > raid-level 1 > nr-raid-disks 2 > nr-spare-disks 0 > chunk-size 4 Do you really want 4-byte chunks? Maybe you meant to use "4k" instead? According to the man pag

Silent failure during attampted RAID1 creation - more

re-hi! (this is a small addition to my prev. mail) I forgot... /etc/raidtab - isn't it useful to know? ;) Here it goes: raiddev /dev/md8 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 chunk-size 4 persistent-superblock 1

Silent failure during attampted RAID1 creation

Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Gentlemen! I hope you can help me to solve the following problem, 'coz I am stuck :) My goal is to set up RAID1 (mirroring) on two 20GB UDMA66 drives. I have an Abit BP6 mainboard with HighPoint UDMA66 controller, which works fine. The drives are 2 x 20GB Seag