> Kernel version is 2.2.9-19mdk (Mandrake 6.0 recompiled
> with RAID0 support built in, not modular).
This is the probable cause of your problem. You are using the 0.90 version of
raidtools (which is good), but to do that, your kernel needs to include the
appropriate raid-patch. The raid support which is built into most kernel source
is for mdtools-0.50 and earlier. They are not compatible. I suspect you may not
have patched your kernel, because 2.2.9 did not work with the raid-patches. I
don't know Mandrake 6.0, so I could be wrong if they managed to find a way to
patch 2.2.9, but if not, you will want to get the vanilla source for 2.2.10,
patch it with the 2.2.10 raid patch and rebuild your kernel. Or you could get
2.2.12final, which includes the raid-patch. Either way, you will also want to
make sure that you have got the latest raidtools as well. You can get the patch
and the raidtools from ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha/
(substitute your country code for <country>, e.g. de for Germany, es for Spain).
Incidentally, your message implies that you are using the whole of /dev/hdb and
/dev/hdd for the array. If so, you should be able to use them straight rather
than creating one big partition on each (i.e. replace /dev/hdb1 with /dev/hdb
and /dev/hdd1 with /dev/hdd in your raidtab). This will gain you a little more
space on the array, at the expense of losing the ability to have the array
auto-recognized at bootup.
> I've looked at all the docs on this that I can find,
> which appear to be out of date, and refer to tools that
> don't exist in the newer raidtools packages.
Another advantage to downloading and building the latest raidtools is that it
contains the latest Software-RAID HOWTO. As you say, the standard docs are
hopelessly out-of-date for the latest raidtools.
Cheers,
Bruno Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED]
