Ok thanks. I did use mdcreate, but still no dice. I will check out the mailing list.
Thanks again for your help. Greg Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Greg Green wrote: > > : Thanks Nathan! > : > : You hit the nail on the head. I was using the NCR7,8xx driver. Once I > : changed it to the NCR8xxx, the card was detected and the drives spun up. > : Now, I am having problems with RAID5. I can get RAID0 to work fine, but I > : cannot figure out to get past a certain error message. > : > : I get the following error when I try to #mdrun -p5 /dev/md0 > : md:08:01: > : invalid raid superblock magic (6c6c6c6c) on block 8886144 > : /dev/md0: > : invalid argument > : > : Any clues on what I am doing wrong? > : > : Let me know, and thanks for the help. > : > : Greg Green > : AdvantageCom > > Did you use mdcreate (IIRC) when you created your raid array? I've > never run any raid level other than 0 (using the md driver, anyway) so I > can't be of much help in the way of practical experience. However, I do > remember that my raid 0 arrays never worked unless I used mdcreate and > let it make the mdtab, etc. ... > > There's a mailing list for linux raid. I believe the name of the list > is linux-raid ... hmm, is it at vger? I forget. The address is in the > md docs, at any rate. I don't have them handy. > > Good luck! > > -- > Nathan Norman > MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 > phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 > mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net > PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers > PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .