!!! Please help me !!! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Using Red Hat 6.0 / raidtools 0.90, I have equal sized partition reserved to use with RAID, on 3 HDs. Five partition each disk. (in /etc/raidtab) /dev/md0 /dev/sda5 /dev/sdb5 /dev/sdc5 /dev/md1 /dev/sda6 /dev/sdb6 /dev/sdc6 ... /dev/md4 /dev/sda9 /dev/sdb9 /dev/sdc9 generating Raid 5, all was OK! but I changed my mind, to gain the parity space ... so I decided to make 3 Raid 1/0 stripes ... changing also /etc/raidtab accordingly mkraid -c /etc/raidtab ... makes all well -> /proc/mdstat: Personalities : [raid0] [raid5] read_ahead 1024 sectors md2 : active raid0 sdc9[4] sdc8[3] ... md1 : active raid0 sdc7[4] ... md0 : active raid0 sdc5[4] ... raidstop ... stops each md ---------------------------- until now, all seems OK -------------- BUT raidstart -c /etc/raidtab -a # brings the error: /dev/md2: File exists AND /proc/mdstat shows: md2 : active raid5 sdc7[2] sdb7[1] sda7[0] ... blocks level 5, 32k ... md0 : active raid5 sdc5[2] sdb5[1] sda5[0] ... blocks level 5, 32k ... (obviously the /dev/md1 was lost ...) What happened, and how can I get rid of it ?? ... even the booting is affected (had to change the rc.sysinit to skip RAID detection/initialization)! I just want to FORGET I ever had RAID5!!! Is it possible? Thanx, Roland -- -- Roland Funk ------------------ tel: +49 89 636-42994 -------------- -- Fujitsu Siemens Computers ---- fax: +49 89 636-44973 -------------- -- EP ST SMS -------- Munich ---- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- http://www.siemens.de/servers/nsr/nsr_us.htm ----------------------
