On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 15:00, Yuhard Ngun wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody encounter problem configuring software RAID 1 with FC2? > > I have 2 identical HDDs, the 1st one where I install FC2 and the 2nd HDD is > unformatted. Here is the error messages I got: > > # mkraid /dev/md0 > handling MD device /dev/md0 > analyzing super-block > disk 0: /dev/hda, 29316672kB, raid superblock at 29316608kB > disk 1: /dev/hdc, 29316672kB, raid superblock at 29316608kB > mkraid: aborted. > (In addition to the above messages, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat as well > for potential clues.) > # > > Here is error from log file: > > kernel: md: could not lock hda. > kernel: md: error, md_import_device() returned -16 > > # cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : > md0 : inactive > unused devices: <none> > > # cat /etc/raidtab > raiddev /dev/md0 > raid-level 1 > nr-raid-disks 2 > nr-spare-disks 0 > chunk-size 4 > persistent-superblock 1 > device /dev/hda > raid-disk 0 > device /dev/hdc > raid-disk 1 > # > > Any comments and help would be appreciated. Thanks. > > -Yuhard You apparently defined a raid 1 device during install, then used one of the raw drives to install. To eliminate the errors you will need to remove the raid device.
