Ok everyone.. Please disregard.. Many HUGE thanks to Stephen Kuhn for helping me figure this out. Turns out I *almost* got it by myself damnit. Heh.
Thanks again Stephen!!!! Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:24 PM Subject: [newbie] RAID problems > Ok.. I'm stumped... > > I'm trying to build a raid-0 using a bunch of HD's.. I read the howto at > http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ and read a bunch of docs. The > array is made of fo 10 disks. I know this may not be the best for > performance, but it really doesn't matter. It's just for data warehousing. > When I tried to build the array, it scrolled all 10 drives, then gave this > error: > > mkraid: aborted > (In addition to the above messages, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat as well > for potential clues.) > > So I did that... syslog says: > kernel: md: array md0 already exists! > > then one second after that error, I get: > kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. > > I'm not sure if that particular error has anything to do with it, but I > suspect it does. So, then if I do cat /proc/mdstat I get: > Personalities : > read_ahead not set > md0 : inactive > unused devices: <none> > > So then if I do raidstart --all, I get: > /dev/md0: already running. > > WTF? Is the thing working or not? What do I need to do to mount it to find > out? > > Any help, as always, appreciated. :) > > Michael > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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