> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harry Zink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 2:00 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: md0 won't let go...
>
> Problem: I compiled RAID patches properly into the recent
> 2.2.15 kernel. I
> have TWO IDE controllers (Promise & HPT366). 2 drives
> attached to the HPT366
> (10.1 gb IBMs), 3 drives attached to the Promise (3 x IBM 25.1 gb).
>
> I successfully created /dev/md0 with the 2 x 10.1 gb drives.
>
> When ataching the 3x25 gb drives to the Promise controller,
> and restarting
> the system, everytime, md wants to take possession of these
> drives, thus
> making it impossible for me to use fdisk to actually format
> them properly
> (they are unformatted).
>
> When trying to use fdisk, I get 'unable to open /dev/hdx1'.
That is a correct error message, and has nothing to do with RAID. You can't
run fdisk on /dev/hdx1, you have to run fdisk on /dev/hdx. Run fdisk on
these drives, and change partition types from FD (Linux RAID), to whatever
type of partition you want them to be. Basically, I think you were just
pointing fdisk to the wrong place.
> By checking the syslog, it claims that these new drives are part of
> /dev/md0.
>
> My raidtab definition doesn't even mention these drives (hdj,
> hdk, hdl), and
> ONLY has entries for the existing raided drives (hdg1, hdh1).
>
> Regardless what I do, I can't 'disconnect' these drives, or
> disable the RAID
> mechanism at all. Any help with this will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
Good luck,
Greg
