Hi Matthew
I am using kernel 2.2.5 and thought of another upgrade to the newer
ones, but I followed
several mails on this list all dealing with problems of raidtools-0.90
and the new kernels.
Maybe I am wrong concerning the mails, so should also try a mkraid
--really-force /dev/md0;
that's how I configure my raids (I was pointed to the fact, that mkraid
/dev/md0 does not
work in most cases - don't why, maybe this was an problem of earlier
versions).
Dietmar
Matthew Coene wrote:
>
> My /etc/raidtab file for my /dev/md0 device is as follows.
>
> raiddev /dev/md0
> raid-level 5
> nr-raid-disks 4
> nr-spare-disks 0
> chunk-size 4
> device /dev/sda1
> raid-disk 0
> device /dev/sdb1
> raid-disk 1
> device /dev/sdc1
> raid-disk 2
> device /dev/sdd1
> raid-disk 3
>
> As far as I know, this is correct. And has worked before under kernel
> version 2.2.5, now I have upgraded to Mandrake Linux v6.0 with kernel ver
> 2.2.9, and the raid-tools that accompanied the distribution.
>
> When I do a "mkraid --force /dev/md0", it apparently writes a
> raid-superblock to each partition included in /etc/raidtab for the /dev/md0
> device, but then it craps out and aborts, with no further diagnostic
> information. Nothing in the syslog and mdstat reports nothing more than I
> have the Raid 4/5 personality registered, read-ahead not set and /dev/md0
> still inactive?
>
> What the heck is going on??? I have been pulling out my hair for days trying
> to solve this one...
>
> My hardware is as follows...
>
> Asus P2B-DS - Adaptec 7890 SCSI Onboard
> 2 x P3-450 CPU
> 1 3.2 GB Udma Bootup/System Drive
> 4 9.1 Gb IBM 7200 rpm 2Mb Cache U2W SCSI Drives
> 256Mb PC-100 SDRAM
> Mandrake Linux v 6.0
> Mandrake SMP Kernel 2.2.9-19
>
> Any information would be immensely appreciated.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Matthew Coene.
> -Systems Administrator
>
> Matthew Coene
>
> - Technical Support & Asst. Systems Admin
> Alliance Gas
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