Your raidtools and kernel RAID driver versions do not match. Patch the
kernel with the patch from http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/, and recompile, and
everything should work. GL,
Greg
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcin Inkielman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 2:24 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RAID newbie
>
>
>
> HI!
>
> i am trying to play with linux2.2.14 RAID5 feature and the raidtools2
> package included in debian potato distribution.
>
> the kernel compiles suuccesfully and i am able to insmod
> raid5 and i have
> /proc/mdstat.
>
> i have 3 disks (hda,hdc,hdd - each 4.3GB) with 3290MB
> partitions to use
> with raid. however i am unable to mkraid /dev/md0 with a
> /etc/raidtab as
> included. i am elso unable to mkraid --really-force it said:
>
> mi:/usr/src/linux# mkraid --really-force /dev/md0
> DESTROYING the contents of /dev/md0 in 5 seconds, Ctrl-C if unsure!
> handling MD device /dev/md0
> analyzing super-block
> disk 0: /dev/hda6, 3212968kB, raid superblock at 3212864kB
> disk 1: /dev/hdc2, 3213000kB, raid superblock at 3212928kB
> disk 2: /dev/hdd2, 3213000kB, raid superblock at 3212928kB
> mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
>
>
> i examined /var/log/syslog and i found nothing interesting
>
> when i cat /proc/mdstat i received:
>
> mi:/usr/src/linux# cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [4 raid5]
> read_ahead not set
> md0 : inactive
> md1 : inactive
> md2 : inactive
> md3 : inactive
>
>
> any ideas, anybody?
>
> thx in advance!
>
>
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