On Friday September 12, darrylb@iprimus.com.au wrote: > Neil, > > Thanks for the reply. > > Software Raid is linked directly into the kernel and not a module. I notice > using make menuconfig on 2.4.21 there is no specific autodetect option as > with earlier kernels, and presume this is no longer necessary. All options > under Multi-Device support are linked in, as is Reiserfs which I am using on > the array. dmesg shows that autodetection is taking place but it does not > appear to find anything. raidstart --all seems to bring it up, as do the > initscripts if I reconfigure raidtools2. > > Any suggestions welcome. You are right that there is no longer a special config option for autodetect. Could I see a complete copy of dmesg output? Is anything interesting in modules? ide driver? scsi driver?... ByTheWay, I *strongly* recommend against using raidstart. It is very fragile and will quite possibly fail miserable if you have a failed drive. I use and recommend (and wrote) mdadm which is much more reliable at starting arrays. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ (I think) 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
