Hi I tried again to activate my raid array, this time with the d and v options both on. The messages I got are the following: WARN: locking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/hdc NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/hdb NOTICE: /dev/hda: via discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: via discovering NOTICE: /dev/sda: via metadata discovered NOTICE: /dev/sdb: via discovering NOTICE: /dev/sdb: via metadata discovered DEBUG: _find_set: searching via_cdjiceidbi DEBUG: _find_set: not found via_cdjiceidbi DEBUG: _find_set: searching via_cdjiceidbi DEBUG: _find_set: not found via_cdjiceidbi NOTICE: added /dev/sda to RAID set "via_cdjiceidbi" DEBUG: _find_set: searching via_cdjiceidbi DEBUG: _find_set: found via_cdjiceidbi DEBUG: _find_set: searching via_cdjiceidbi DEBUG: _find_set: found via_cdjiceidbi NOTICE: added /dev/sdb to RAID set "via_cdjiceidbi" DEBUG: checking via device "/dev/sda" DEBUG: checking via device "/dev/sdb" DEBUG: set status of set "via_cdjiceidbi" to 16 NOTICE: discovering partitions on "via_cdjiceidbi" NOTICE: /dev/mapper/via_cdjiceidbi: dos discovering ERROR: dos: reading /dev/mapper/via_cdjiceidbi[No such file or directory] WARN: unlocking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock DEBUG: freeing devices of RAID set "via_cdjiceidbi" DEBUG: freeing device "via_cdjiceidbi", path "/dev/sda" DEBUG: freeing device "via_cdjiceidbi", path "/dev/sdb" Does this mean something to you? > > What unit is it reporting in? > A sector is usually 512 bytes, so if the above is > sectors, the number > would correspond to 114 GB (eg. a "120GB" disk). > > > for two 120MB drives in mirroring mode. > You are right, the size is reported correctly Thanks Alessandro __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list