On Monday July 8, bo@sosnetwork.net wrote: > Neil, > > I am trying to create the RAID 5 array with > > >mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l5 -n6 -x1 -prs /dev/hd[bcdefgh] > > However, I am getting the following error message; > > >mdadm: RUN_ARRAY failed: Invalid argument > .. > > Any clue? Maybe the raid5 personality isn't loaded into the kernel... What does cat /proc/mdstat say? Are there any message in dmesg after the failure? NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html