On Monday May 31, maheshext3@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello folks, I am using kernel version 2.4.18-ac3, > mdadm - v1.2.0 - 13 Mar 2003 and wanted to take a shot > at creating a RAID on an extended partition using > mdadm. > the commands used were (all drives were swapped off an > unmounted before running these, and I am running on a > motherboard with 4 IDE channels; the drives used were > /dev/hde and /dev/hdg): > Fdisk RESULT for hde (same on hdg as well): > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id > System > /dev/hde1 1 9052 72710158+ 83 > Linux > /dev/hde2 9053 36473 220259182+ 5 > Extended > /dev/hde5 9053 12877 30724281 fd > Linux raid autodetect > > Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. > hde: hde1 hde2 < hde5 > > hde: hde1 hde2 < hde5 > > Syncing disks. > > After that, When I tried to run: > mdadm --create --force /dev/md3 --raid-devices=2 > --level=1 /dev/hde5 /dev/hdg5 > > I get: > mdadm: Cannot open /dev/hde5: No such file or > directory > mdadm: Cannot open /dev/hdg5: No such file or > directory > mdadm: create aborted What does ls -l /dev/hd[eg]5 show? How about cat /proc/partitions dd if=/dev/hde5 of=/dev/null bs=1024k NeilBrown > > I am using mdadm - v1.2.0 - 13 Mar 2003 Not the most recent ..... but it should still work. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
