You need to upgrade your md driver to 0.90 to use raidutils or you can try
using some older version of mdutils.
Toni Jarvinen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Torsten Warncke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 12:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: prob w/ md utils
>
>
> Trying to set up RAID-1 I get wrong superblock error.
> I have SuSE 6.3, hda: IBM-DPTA-353750, 35772MB w/1961kB
> Cache, CHS=4560/255/63
> hdc: IBM-DPTA-353750, 35772MB w/1961kB Cache, CHS=4560/255/63
> ...
> md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4560 cylinders as hdc
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 26 208813+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 27 536 4096575 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 537 1046 4096575 83 Linux
> /dev/hda4 1047 4560 28226205 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 1047 1301 2048256 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 1302 1556 2048256 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 1557 1811 2048256 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda8 1812 4560 22081311 fd Linux raid
> autodetect
>
> You see: hd[a,c]8 is a logical partition in an extended one!
>
>
> mkraid --really-force /dev/md2 gives:
> DESTROYING the contents of /dev/md2 in 5 seconds, Ctrl-C if unsure!
> handling MD device /dev/md2
> analyzing super-block
> disk 0: /dev/hda8, 22081311kB, raid superblock at 22081216kB
> disk 1: /dev/hdc8, 22081311kB, raid superblock at 22081216kB
> mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
>
> syslogs says nothing, mdstat tells me RAID inactive!
> I.e.: mkraid aborts, no RAID-1 to get running.
> Anybody knows some help, please?
>
> Thanks
> Torsten
>
> My /etc/raidtab which I also used with mkraid --config...
> raiddev /dev/md2
> raid-level 1
> nr-raid-disks 2
> nr-spare-disks 0
> chunk-size 8 # I tried different sizes
> up to 64 k
> persistent-superblock 1
> device /dev/hda8
> raid-disk 0
> device /dev/hdc8
> raid-disk 1
>
