Re: problems creating my first raid 1 on debian

[Tyler <pml@dtbb.net>]

One thing I noticed, is the "required 0.90.0 or later" message... thats 
tell you that the kernel doesn't have the required MD version.  I'm not 
sure what kernel 0.90.0 appeared in, but it seems like you're gonna need 
a kernel update.

Tyler.

Ken Walker wrote:

>I've been using Mandrake Linux for a few years now, and always preferred
>LM8.2 because it was supposed to be the most stable version they have
>produce to date. But i got hacked and the main problem was updating packages
>no longer supported by Mandrake.
>
>I don't like their end of product life expectancy, similar to windows.
>
>I'm now starting with Debian, because there more interested in stability
>than adding everything before its been fully tested.
>
>I could never get uprmi to work, even on Mandrakes latest releases, but apt
>is excellent, works first time every time ( apart for openoffice, its says
>there isn't one available )
>
>Anyway, I'm trying to build a raid 1 with two 160gig IDE drives, I'm booting
>from Debian 3.0r5 'vanilla' kernel from Scsi and have the two ide's on
>separate ide channels.
>
>Going through mdadm howtos and such they say start with the following
>
>Samba3:/etc/init.d# mkraid /dev/md0
>
>And i get the following 
>
>mkraid version 0.36.4
>parsing configuration file
>mkraid: aborted
>
>so then i tried 
>
>Samba3:/etc/init.d# mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=linear
>--raid-devices=2 /dev/hda /dev/hdc
>
>and got the following
>
>mdadm: Create requires md driver version 0.90.0 or later
>
>So i looked at the version of mdadm i had updated to using apt-get install
>mdadm
>
>Samba3:/etc/init.d# mdadm -V
>
>and it said
>
>mdadm - v1.9.0 - 04 February 2005
>
>How do i get the latest version of md via apt, or am i doing something else
>wrong here
>
>I have also read that if i do the following
>
>Samba3:/proc# cat mdstat
>
>and get the following result  ( below is me )
>
>Personalities :
>read_ahead not set
>md0 : inactive
>md1 : inactive
>md2 : inactive
>md3 : inactive
>
>
>Then i need kernel patches for raid !
>
>Do i need kernel patches ( I'm running Debain on 'vanilla' because of my
>scsi card )
>
>ps if i run apt-get install mdadm now i get the following
>
>Samba3:/proc# apt-install mdadm
>bash: apt-install: command not found
>Samba3:/proc# apt-get install mdadm
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>The following NEW packages will be installed:
>  mdadm
>0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 344  not upgraded.
>Need to get 0B/104kB of archives. After unpacking 254kB will be used.
>debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde
>debconf: (Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl
>/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5
>/usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8
>/usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at
>/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Kde/Wizard.pm line 7, <> line 1.)
>debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
>Preconfiguring packages ...
>(Reading database ... 48796 files and directories currently installed.)
>Unpacking mdadm (from .../mdadm_1.9.0-4_i386.deb) ...
>dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mdadm_1.9.0-4_i386.deb
>(--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/sbin/mdrun', which is also in package raidtools
>dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/mdadm_1.9.0-4_i386.deb
>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>Samba3:/proc#
>
>could this be my problem
>
>Many thanks
>
>Ken
>
>
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