On Friday March 16, babydr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello All , I am having a dickens of a time with preparing this system > to replace my present one . > I created a raid6 array over 6 147GB scsi drives . > steps I followed were . > > fdisk /dev/sd[c-h] ( one at a time of course ) > created a partition starting at cyl 2 & -10 Cyls from the end of the drive . > typed the partion FD > w > repeat until all six drives partitioned . > > mdadm --create /dev/md3 --chunk=64 --metadata=1.2 --verbose --bitmap=internal --level=6 --raid-devices=6 --spare-devices=0 /dev/sd[cdefgh]1 > Built just fine . In-kernel auto-assembly using partition type 0xFD only works for metadata=0.90. This is deliberate. Don't use 0xFD partitions. Use mdadm to assemble your array, either via an initrd or (if it don't hold the root filesystem) via an init.d script. 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
