Neil, You are right. I found my kernel image did not configure the RAID 5. Thanks a lot, Bo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Brown" <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> To: "bo" <bo@sosnetwork.net> Cc: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 10:01 PM Subject: Re: Invalid argument error on raid5 create > 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
