Have you done a "mkraid --really-force /dev/mdX" or just a "mkraid
/dev/mdX"?
Try the force-option.
Greetings, Dietmar
Paul Witting wrote:
>
> I'm hoping you can help. I'm upgrading a news server and having trouble with
> some drives.
>
> I'm actually trying to format the drives on another machine (these results
> are from that machine) prior to taking them out to the remote site. They are
> both Dell 2300's with RedHat 5.2 installed. I have upgraded the kernel of
> this machine to 2.2.5, including RAID 0 and RAID1 support in that kernel. I
> downloaded the 3/7/99 version of Raidtools .90 and installed them.
>
> The array is 6 36 GB IBM drives on two 2940 controllers, to be striped and
> used for the news spool directory. /dev/sdh and /dev/sdh1 I added with
> mknod, the partitions are of type 0xFD (per the instructions on
> automounting).
>
> When I try to mkraid, it aborts. Any ideas on where to look to get this
> array up and running?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Paul K. Witting
> Manager of Information Systems
> Cyveillance - Intelligent Internet Surveillance
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (703) 519-4212
>
> Stuff that might be useful...
>
> [root@visitors raidtools-0.90]# /sbin/mkraid /dev/md0
> handling MD device /dev/md0
> analyzing super-block
> disk 0: /dev/sdc1, 36081958kB, raid superblock at 36081856kB
> disk 1: /dev/sdd1, 36081958kB, raid superblock at 36081856kB
> disk 2: /dev/sde1, 36081958kB, raid superblock at 36081856kB
> disk 3: /dev/sdf1, 36081958kB, raid superblock at 36081856kB
> disk 4: /dev/sdg1, 36081958kB, raid superblock at 36081856kB
> disk 5: /dev/sdh1, 36081958kB, raid superblock at 36081856kB
> mkraid: aborted
> [root@visitors raidtools-0.90]# cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [2 raid0] [3 raid1]
> read_ahead not set
> md0 : inactive
> md1 : inactive
> md2 : inactive
> md3 : inactive
> [root@visitors raidtools-0.90]# cat /etc/raidtab
> raiddev /dev/md0
> raid-level 0
> nr-raid-disks 6
> nr-spare-disks 0
> persistent-superblock 1
> chunk-size 16
> device /dev/sdc1
> raid-disk 0
> device /dev/sdd1
> raid-disk 1
> device /dev/sde1
> raid-disk 2
> device /dev/sdf1
> raid-disk 3
> device /dev/sdg1
> raid-disk 4
> device /dev/sdh1
> raid-disk 5
>
> [root@visitors raidtools-0.90]# ls -l /dev/md0
> brw------- 1 root root 9, 0 Apr 19 18:57 /dev/md0
> [root@visitors raidtools-0.90]# ps auxw
> USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> ...
> root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 07:31 0:00 (md_thread)
> ...
>
> [root@visitors Documentation]# fdisk /dev/sdh
> ...
> Disk /dev/sdh: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4492 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdh1 1 4492 36081958+ fd Unknown
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We all have lack of knowledge...
Dietmar Stein, Systemadministrator UNIX/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
