From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <200008232200.e7NM0oI22048@webber.adilger.net> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM and sw RAID1 In-Reply-To: <20000823162957.B8398@gospelcom.net> "from Peter Green at Aug 23, 2000 04:29:57 pm" Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:00:49 -0600 (MDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Peter Green Cc: linux-lvm@msede.com Peter Green writes: > I am having a really difficult time being able to get LVM to recognize my > /dev/md[012] arrays. What does /proc/partitions show you? What about cfdisk -P s /dev/sdX for each drive? > (pcg@dmna) ~> sudo pvcreate /dev/md0 > pvcreate -- invalid partition type 0x83 for "/dev/md0" (must be 0x8e) Have you tried doing this directly as root? I'm not sure if it makes a difference, but it is worth trying. Have you applied the fixes from "BUGS" to the LVM tools? Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert