On Thursday May 31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I haven't found any answer that works in the HOWTO's, man pages or > readme's. I messed up somewhere, but can't find it. Please send the output of strace mkraid /dev/md0 (with the appropriate "force" option) cat /proc/mdstat tail -50 /var/log/kern.log (or whereever kernel message go on your system). NeilBrown > Setup: > 2.2.19 kernel w/ RAID support compiled in. (Slackware 7.1 to start) > raid tools 0.90 > dual IBM 9.1 gig ultra-SCSI on a SuperMicro/Adapted 7895 on board controller. > RAID 1 personality registered. > > /etc/raidtab: > > raiddev /dev/md0 > raid-level 1 > nr-raid-disks 2 > persistent-superblock 1 > chunk-size 32 > > device /dev/sda3 > raid-disk 0 > device /dev/sdb3 > raid-disk 1 > > -->eof > raidstart "--all" or "/dev/md0" or "--configfile /etc/raidtab" results in: > "/dev/md0: Invalid argument" > > mkraid /dev/md0 (and all useful options, including "--force") results in: > "disk 0: /dev/sda3, xxxkB, raid suberblock at XXX > /dev/sda3 appears to be part of a RAID ... aborted ,see /proc/mdstat and syslog for >clues" > > Well, /proc/mdstat shows raid1 personality registered and 3 inactive raids. > syslog, even after upping logging level shows nothing at all. I add that very early >on in this, on a 2.2.16 kernel, this raid was registered and active as a raid0. >After that, trying to change it ended up w/ this. I was using the older raidtools, >too. Now, even changing partition types, mke2fs as a normal linux partition, >re-partition... nothing changes. > Has anybody seen this before? > > Thanks in advance. > Greg Neumann > __________________________________________________________________ > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at >http://webmail.netscape.com/ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
