----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Brown" <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> To: "Jean-Rene Cormier" <jean-rene.cormier@cipanb.ca> Cc: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 6:40 PM Subject: Re: Software RAID1 problems > On Thursday February 20, jean-rene.cormier@cipanb.ca wrote: > > > > > > I cannot explain the mounting problem. Maybe if you give more > > > specifics.... > > > > Well what I did was: > > > > mdadm -Cv -l2 -n2 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdg1 /dev/md0 > > mke2fs -j /dev/md0 > > mount /dev/md0 /home > > > > then I unmounted it and when I tried to mount it again right after > > unmounting it I got the Wrong FS type error and I get a bunch of error > > message on the console. > > If that is really what you did, no wonder it didn't work. The md > device must be listed first, not last. > > However if it is a typo, and you really listed /dev/md0 first, it is > strange. Maybe if you could include the 'bunch of error messages' - > dmesg > /tmp/afile > should get them for you. Yes that was a typo sorry. I did reformat /dev/md0 and a when it started formating it gave me those errors again. I did a little searching and the problem is not in the raid array, but I'm still not sure what is causing the problem. The error was: hde: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hde: drive not ready for command hde: status timeout: status=0xf0 { Busy } hde: drive not ready for command ide2: reset: success I get a bunch of those. I removed the drive and I reformated the array and it works fine but I guess that if I put that drive back in it'll start doing it again. Could it be a bad drive or something? If it is what's the use of having a RAID-1 array if it corrupts your file system when a drive is bad? Jean-Rene Cormier - 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