--- Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What does > ls -l /dev/hd[eg]5 > show? How about > cat /proc/partitions > dd if=/dev/hde5 of=/dev/null bs=1024k Thanks a lot, Neil, turns out those nodes were not present. After I mknod'd them, all's fine in RAIDland... Quick question: does using extended partitions for RAID affect performance? Cheers, Mahesh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ - 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