On Friday June 2, madmax@xxxxxxxx wrote: > I have some old controler Mylex Acceleraid 170LP with 6 SCSI 36GB disks on > it. Running hardware raid5 resulted with very poor performance (7Mb/sec in > sequential writing, with horrid iowait). > > So I configured it to export 6 logical disks and tried creating raid6 and see > if I can get better results. Trying to create an array with a missing component > results in: > > ~/mdadm-2.5/mdadm -C /dev/md3 -l6 -n6 /dev/rd/c0d0p3 /dev/rd/c0d2p3 /dev/rd/c0d3p3 /dev/rd/c0d4p3 /dev/rd/c0d5p3 missing > mdadm: RUN_ARRAY failed: Input/output error There should have been some messages in the kernel log when this happened. Can you report them too? Thanks, 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