Hello all,
I ran into the above error, when attempting to activate the second of two
raid sets I was configuring on a new box at work. I found no mention of
this error, neither in the HOWTO nor when scanning the subjects of previous
posts to this list. Any pointers to what I'm doing wrong, would be greatly
appreciated - I'm not on this list, so please also reply directly.
Further details:
(The following is written from memory: I gave the box a remote reboot
command, but it never came back up. I must have forgotten something. :-)
The box is a dual PII, with a 2.0.36 SMP kernel, with everything compiled in
(not using modules). I'm using the raid drivers that were included with
Linux 2.0.36, and the raidtools included with RedHat 5.2
(raidtools-0.50beta10-2.i386.rpm).
I'm attempting to raid together four 4.3GB SCSI disks (two disks connected
to each of two Adaptec 2940 controllers). I wanted to create 3 partitions,
each spread across these four disks, but to get familiar with the raid
configuration I started working with only two partitions.
I split each disk roughly in half, and created /etc/raidtab. All went well,
I could raidadd and mkraid both sets, and then activate *one* of them using
raidrun, create a filesystem on it and mount it.
For some reason though, when I tried to activate the second set, the kernel
complained, giving me the error in this message's subject line. It didn't
matter which set I activated - both worked fine on their own, but I couldn't
get them both active at once. Is it impossible to have multiple raid5 sets
active at the same time? (And if so, shouldn't this prominently
documented?)
Thanks in advance!
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