Dear List members, I'm an experienced Linux user, not so experienced with SuSE, however. I've tried to keep the system I'm working on very close to the SuSE standard, and I am using SuSE tools whenever possible. SuSE punted when I sent them this question, because, according to SuSE support, it "really does not fall into installation support as defined in appendix H". They then directed me to the lists. The goal -------- I want to set up a network file server. I want to use software RAID for mirroring user data areas. I am currently not attempting to mirror root and system areas. Hardware -------- On my primary IDE bus, I have two hard disks, which will not be used for mirroring, and an IDE CDROM drive on the secondary IDE bus. For my mirroring attempt, I have two IBM 13.1 GB drives, each on an individual IDE bus, connected to a Promise Ultra66 PCI IDE card. The card and hard disk drives are recognized by the system, and I was able to partition the disks, setup swap partitions, and format other (non RAID) partitions. The Software ------------ I installed a clean setup from the SuSE 6.4 CDROMs. It appears to function correctly (although the Gimp dies regularly). The MD drivers load without errror on startup. /proc/mdstat exists and appears normal. RAID setup ---------- Here's a copy of my /etc/raidtab file: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size 4 device /dev/hde7 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdg7 raid-disk 1 The Problem ------------ When I do the next step, which is to execute the command mkraid /dev/md0 I get the following error: newarchive:~ # mkraid /dev/md0 handling MD device /dev/md0 analyzing super-block disk 0: /dev/hde7, 12983512kB, raid superblock at 12983424kB disk 1: /dev/hdg7, 12983512kB, raid superblock at 12983424kB mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues. The Clues: ---------- Here's what /proc/mdstat shows: newarchive:~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 raid5] read_ahead not set md0 : inactive md1 : inactive md2 : inactive md3 : inactive Careful examination of various files in /var/log/ shows ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! I uncommented this line in /etc/syslogd.conf # enable this, if you want to keep all messages # in one file *.* -/var/log/allmessages However, /var/log/allmessages shown absolutely nothing related to the raid drivers. Now what? -------- Any suggestions about how to proceed? Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to give me. John Seifarth __________________________________________________________________ John Seifarth http://www.waw.be/waw/ Words & Wires SPRL john@waw.be Computer Consulting & Language Services Voice: (+) 32-2-660-3943 1160 Brussels, Belgium Fax: (+) 32-2-675-3922 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/