The new version of the udev package in Fedora Core 4 updates is udev-071-0.FC4.2, and it tries to scan drive partitions to create some new devices such as those in the new /dev/disk/by-id/ directory. With dmraid you don't want it to scan your striped raid drives individually or it will generate errors as it tries to seek past the end of the drive with the "big" partition on it. My raid drives are /dev/hde, /dev/hdf, and /dev/hdg but you can modify it for your own raid devices that you don't want udev to scan. Here is the patch to the 50-udev.rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ # diff -Naur 50-udev.rules.orig 50-udev.rules --- 50-udev.rules.orig 2006-01-31 08:09:15.000000000 -0800 +++ 50-udev.rules 2006-02-05 14:13:37.000000000 -0800 @@ -255,6 +255,9 @@ # skip rules for inappropriate block devices KERNEL=="ram*|loop*|fd*|nbd*", GOTO="persistent_end" +# skip dmraid drives +KERNEL=="hde*|hdf*|hdg*", GOTO="persistent_end" + # never access removable ide devices, the drivers are causing event loops on open() BUS=="ide", DRIVER!="ide-cdrom", SYSFS{removable}="1", GOTO="persistent_end" -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list