Why do I get the following error when I attempt to 'mdadm --build' a
software RAID 5 array that was created in Windows 2003 using Dynamic Disks
(LDM)?
Raid level 5 not permitted with --build
RAID-0 arrays work great, and some of the kernel documentation implies that
RAID-5 should work too:
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 15:35 +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
On Monday January 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looks like you are running into the issue described here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-raidm=119892098129022w=2
Dan, thanks for your quick reply. It's exactly the same issue: the array
was created
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 15:35 +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
On Monday January 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 7, 2008 6:44 AM, Radu Rendec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm experiencing trouble when trying to add a new disk to a raid 1 array
after having replaced a faulty disk.
I cannot easily
Neil Brown wrote:
On Monday January 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Problem is not raid, or at least not obviously raid related. The
problem is that the whole disk, /dev/hdb is unavailable.
Maybe check /sys/block/hdb/holders ? lsof /dev/hdb ?
good luck :-)
losetup -a may help,
Hi,
I've got a 4 disk RAID5 array that had one of the disks die. The hassle
is that the death was not graceful and triggered a bug in the nforce4
chipset that wound up freezing the northbridge and hence the pc. This
has left the array in a degraded state where I cannot add the swanky new
HD to
On Wednesday January 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd provide data dumps of --examine and friends but I'm in a situation
where transferring the data would be a right pain. I'll do it if need
be, though.
So, what can I do?
Well, providing the output of --examine would help a lot.
But I
