I have tried to "cat /proc/mdstat". It looks like something re-generating the
RAID, i.e. [... raid5 ... 2%...] on one occassion.
However, most of the time, it just immediately hung after completing the
command before I could check for this.
Terence
Quoting Gregory Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Terence Ang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 12:53 AM
> >
> > Hardware Configuration (All are master disks)
> > =============================================
> > Motherboard Primary IDE : 15GB Hard Disk (holding /,
> > /boot, /usr etc.)
> > Motherboard Secondary IDE : 420MB Hard Disk (to be RAID5)
> > PCI IDE Card (HPT370) Primary : 540MB Hard Disk (to be RAID5)
> > PCI IDE Card (HPT370) Secondary : 540MB Hard Disk (to be RAID5)
> >
> > Software Configuration
> > ======================
> > Linux 2.2.17 with patches ide.2.2.17.all.20000904 and raid-2.2.17-A0
> >
> > /etc/raidtab
> > ------------
> > raiddev /dev/md0
> > raid-level 5
> > nr-raid-disks 3
> > chunk-size 4
> > parity-algorithm left-symmetric
> > nr-spare-disks 0
> >
> > device /dev/hdc1
> > raid-disk 0
> >
> > device /dev/hde1
> > raid-disk 1
> >
> > device /dev/hdg1
> > raid-disk 2
> >
> > Problems
> > ========
> > When running "mkraid --force /dev/md0", there are no
> > problems initially
> > and the command can complete. However, after a while, the
> > whole system hung up.
> > I had to reset the machine but the problem persists after rebooting.
>
> What does the output from 'mkraid /dev/md0' look like? What does 'cat
> /proc/mdstat' return?
> Greg
>
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