hi ya greg, maurice thanx for the reply.... - its formatting 1.4TB now... duhhh.... guess i'm getting too old and too late for this... i got confused since i had dinitially done a fdisk /dev/sda ... /dev/sdh and created partitions just to make sure everythng worked than i did the 3dm configure stuff... thanx alvin > > > > http://localhost:1080 > > - shows the list of drives in the raid > > - shows the other info abut the 3ware card > > Sounds like you've got things set up correctly. > > > but now that i wanna use the hw raid, and want to do: > > fdisk /dev/md0 > > mke2fsc -j -m 1 /dev/md0 > > mount /dev/md0 /Raid > > > > but there is no such thing as /dev/md0 ... *pout* > > Err, right, there isn't. /dev/md? is only for software RAID devices. > If you've got the 3ware kernel modules loaded, then your 3ware RAID > device should show up as /dev/sd? dmesg should have more info, or > /proc/scsi. > - 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