Re: RAID problems continued

[Rich Payne <rdp talisman alphalinux org>]

Sorry, I should have also mentioned that you'll need the RAID patches:
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mingo/raid-patches/

--rdp

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Eugene Chu wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> Here is where I'm at in fighting with the RAID problem on my system.
> 
> To recap:  It is an API UP2000 system with an adaptec 2940 U2/W
> controller with an IBM boot disk and two Seagate 73 GB drives combined
> in RAID0 stripe.  It had RH 7.0 installed, with kernel version
> 2.2.14-6.0smp.  The system would hang after a lot of activities to the
> RAID partition (/dev/md0).
> 
> I have been advised that the kernel and disk drivers probably have bugs,
> and are therefore causing the system hangs.  I downloaded the 2.2.17
> kernel package from alphalinux.org, and after a few iterations, was able
> to get a kernel that would almost boot.  It gets to a point where it's
> trying to start the RAID, and an error occurs.  The only messages I get
> are:
> 
> *error occurred during RAID startup
> *check syslog and /proc/mdstat for more information
> 
> and then it prompts for root password to log into single user mode.
> At this time, the /var partition has not yet been mounted, so I do
> not find anything in messages file regarding this, and /proc/mdstat
> has only the following:
> 
> Personalities: [2 raid0]
> read_ahead not set
> md0: inactive
> md1: inactive
> md2: inactive
> md3: inactive
> 
> This is my first attempt at building LINUX, but I think I selected all
> the right support options from make xconfig.  If I exclude the MD
> drivers, the system boots up, but I obviously can not access the RAID.
> Is there something else that's going on that i need to fix?
> 
> thanks in advance for any assistance.
> eyc
> 
> 
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