Someone out there help me. I'm not really sure of how to configure the software raid on my box. This is what I have done. I have two SCSI disks in my machine, both 8.5 gig. The sda disk is the boot disk with all my data. I want the sdb disk to be my raid disk. So far I fdisked the second drive only as one partition...I don't know if this is right, but when I tried to partition it as two partitions it named the partitions sdb1p1 and sdb1p2...which when entered in the raidtab file like that the mkraid command didn't recognize what they were. As one disk I change the ID to fd for the autodetect Raid partiton. I do a mkraid /dev/md0 and it seems to make the md0 drive. If I look at mdstat it says: md0: active raid1 sdb1[0] 8964160 blocks [1/1] [U] resync=0% finish=172713.8min (this finish setting goes up to about 680,000 minutes and then seems to start over.) If I try to do a mkfs /dev/md0 it seems to go through everything allright , it gets to writing the Inode tables and then it locks up at scsi0: Tagged and Queuing now active for target 1. If you do a top or a ps aux and look at the process mkfs it has a status of D (which I believe means uninterruptable sleep) at this point I can't do anything with the machine as far as shutdowns, or anything major, I edit files and mv them. What exactly am I doing wrong? Rick Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
