I have two SCSI disks that I am trying to combine using software raid
disk striping (raid-0). mkraid returns the folowing error:
/sbin/mkraid --really-force /dev/md0
DESTROYING the contents of /dev/md0 in 5 seconds, Ctrl-C if unsure!
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/sdb1, 17782768kB, raid superblock at 17782656kB
disk 1: /dev/sdc1, 17782768kB, raid superblock at 17782656kB
mkraid: aborted
At this point running raidstart -a generates an Invalid argument
error. Here is the relevant /etc/raidtab:
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 0
persistent-superblock 0
chunk-size 16
nr-raid-disks 2
device /dev/sdb1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdc1
raid-disk 1
Any suggenstions. I am running RedHat 6.0, and kernel 2.2.6 or
kernel 2.2.10 (I tried both no difference).
--kelvin