Brian Denheyer wrote:
> 
> Whenever I do
> 
>   mkraid /dev/md1
> 
> I get an error message about md0 and md1 have overlapping physical
> units. Normally I would ignore such a message, but my first atttempt
> to construct raid1 hasn't worked so well.
> 
> When I finished and boot the system, I always get errors that say that
> the superblock size and physical size don't match.  When I invoke fsck
> on /dev/md1 I get a pretty nasty error to the effect that my partition
> info or superblock is corrupt.  If I ignore the error and continue it
> checks clean.
> 
> I'm using identical 20GB disk drives.  Even though they are identical
> they appear in fdisk with different C/H/S's.  I'm thinking this is why
> I keep getting the messages about overlapping disks when I invoked
> mkraid /edv/md1.
> 
> Anybody have any ideas about this ?

Are they both set to the same translation scheme in BIOS?  I.E. both set
to LBA, or Large disk mode, or whatever?

> 
> BTW Has anyone noticed that the linux raid archives are FUBAR after
> about nov 99 ??

I didn't know that there were any archives...
        Greg

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