> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher "C.J." Keist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 8:38 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Is there a size limit in linear mode?
>
> Hello,
> Looking for some help/advice. I'm trying to append three logical
> drives defined on a HP NetRAID 3si Raid controller. The sizes of the
> three logical drives are :363Gb, 101Gb and 34Gb. I have read
> through the
> Software-RAID.HOWTO.txt doc and have setup the kernel and
> raidtab file as
> specified in the doc (I'm running RH6.2) plus set the fd for the
> partition types. Anyway when I run the mkraid
> command this is what I get:
>
> [root@megatera /etc]# mkraid /dev/md0
> handling MD device /dev/md0
> analyzing super-block
> disk 0: /dev/sdc1, 373414828kB, raid superblock at 373414720kB
> disk 1: /dev/sdd1, 106687633kB, raid superblock at 106687552kB
> disk 2: /dev/sde1, 35559846kB, raid superblock at 35559744kB
> /dev/md0: Invalid argument
>
> Here is what the /proc/mdstat file says:
>
> [root@megatera raidtools-0.90]# more /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [linear]
> read_ahead not set
> unused devices: <none>
>
> Have I hit a size limit on what the raidtools/kernel can handle?
I doubt it, but you never know. Does /dev/md0 exist?
Greg
