Hello all,
I'm new to this list and have been lurking for a while trying to get a grasp
of the raid setup.  I finally got around to setting up the raid however I've
run into a problem.  Here's the rundown.

Hardware setup
Adaptec SCSI controller
Two 4.3GB Ultra Wide SCSI disks

sda>disk 0
sdb>disk 1

I've installed RH 6.0 on disk 0 and created the following partitions
/dev/sda1    /
/dev/sda2    extended
/dev/sda5    /swap
/dev/sda6

/dev/sdb1    /
/dev/sdb2    extended
/dev/sdb5    /swap
/dev/sdb6

I then proceeded to create the following raidtab file
raiddev    /dev/md0
raid-level    1
nr-raid-disks    2
chunk-size    256
device    /dev/sda6
raid-disk    0
device    /dev/sdb6
raid-disk    1

>From here, I performed the following

mkraid -c raidtab /dev/md0

then did

cat /proc/mdstat

to make sure everything was running properly.  All seemed fine here.  Then,

mke2fs -b 4096 -m 1 -R stride=16 /dev/md0

Then I used linuxconf to add the new mount:

/dev/md0    /home    ext2

and rebooted. During rebooting, while checking the filesystem, I get

Checking filesystems
fsck.ext2:  Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
while trying to open /dev/md0
Could this be a zero-length partition?

Then a prompt for root password for maintenance.


Not too sure where to go from here.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

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