Kelvin Edwards wrote:
>
> 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).
1) Did you patch the kenrel before you compiled (2.2.6/2.2.10)?
2) Turn on persistent-superblock (chang 0 -> 1)
Bill Anderson
>
> --kelvin
