On Saturday October 9, poonamsbox@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > 3. Then I worrked with the following command. > I got the following error. > > bash2-2.05b# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=0 > --chunk=128 --raid-disks=2 /dev/hda5 /dev/hda4 > mdadm: /dev/hda5 appears to contain an ext2fs file > system size=10241404K mtime=Sat Oct 9 17:06:24 2004 > Continue creating array? y > mdadm: ADD_NEW_DISK for /dev/hda5 failed: Invalid > argument Are there any messages from the kernel at this time. The command dmesg would show them.. However my guess is that you only recently created these partitions. You might need to reboot before they are recognised. > > -------------------------------------------------- > > 4. When i again tried with that command, it showed > the following error. > > bash2-2.05b# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=0 > --chunk=128 --raid-disks=2 /dev/hda5 /dev/hda4 > mdadm: /dev/hda5 appears to contain an ext2fs file > system size=10241404K mtime=Sat Oct 9 17:06:24 2004 > Continue creating array? y > mdadm: SET_ARRAY_INFO failed for /dev/md0: File > exists Yes, you need to stop the array mdadm --stop /dev/md0 because it is half-created. But a reboot will achieve the same effect. > > Please if you could solve my problem, it > would be of very great help for me. I have a deadline > as sunday and today is saturday. So, sir please do > reply. > Thank you. If the above doesn't help, send us the complete output of dmesg immediately after failing to create the array. NeilBrown - 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
