Hi there,

Can anyone help ......

I have 2 new 9 gig scsi drives that I have installed onto my linux machine.
I did a fdisk on both (full size)
Then I did a mkfs on both.

So now I can mount the two drives no problem

mount /dev/sdb1 /mail2
mount /dev/sdc1 /mail3

I wanted to create a raid0 setup for those 2 disks.
I followed the software raid HOWTO and made the /etc/raidtab to match.
I then typed in mkraid /dev/md0 which worked
I then formated the drive and mounted it.

When I rebooted I got errors .... so I moved the etc/raidtab to /etc/raidtab.old
and then I could get back in.

After doing that I tried to do the mkraid again and it now says (and changing
back the etc/raidtab)

handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/sdb1, 8891376kB, raid superblock at 8891264kB
/dev/sdb1 appears to be already part of a raid array -- use -f to
force the destruction of the old superblock
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.

proc/mdstat now looks like this
Personalities : [raid0]
read_ahead 1024 sectors
unused devices: <none>

I also tried that -f flag but it just gives me a warning

What must I do .... and how do I set it up so that it starts automatically ?

Thanks for the help
Mark



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