On 2/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steven Adeff</b> <<a href="mailto:adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com">adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 2/2/06, Michael Haan <<a href="mailto:michael.haan@gmail.com">michael.haan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> On 2/2/06, Steven Adeff <<a href="mailto:adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com">adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br>> ><br>> > On 2/1/06, Michael Haan <<a href="mailto:michael.haan@gmail.com">michael.haan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > > Ok, a little off-topic, but since this is my myth box and I'm going with
<br>> FC5<br>> > > for myth support reasons.....<br>> > ><br>> > > I've just installed FC5 x86_64 on my box and I'm trying to set-up my<br>> file<br>> > > system. The OS lives on /dev/hda along with swap and /boot. I've got
<br>> four<br>> > > four 250G SATA drives that previously lived in a RAID 5 config under<br>> FC4.<br>> > > Now, when I try to create a RAID 5 array on these devices under FC5, it<br>> > > tells me that each of these devices are busy. I suspect this has to do
<br>> with<br>> > > new options I saw for creating LVMs on install, but I don't want an LVM.<br>> > > Anyone know what's going on here or how to get around it?<br>> ><br>> > from my understandig, FC5 should load up the four drives as a their
<br>> > old RAID array if you place the same config like you had for FC4 in<br>> > FC5 for mdadm. I assume you were using software RAID?<br>> ><br>><br>> Yep, software raid using mdadm. I saved-off the conf file, but the fs from
<br>> those drives is gone. When I try using mdadm to create an array on those<br>> drives, mdadm tells me for each drive that "Device or resource is busy". So<br>> I made sure that none were mounted, and then created a raid partition on
<br>> each but I still get the same result.<br><br>how is the file system gone? did you manually erase it? using cfdisk<br>on the drives should show the partition type as the linux raid type,<br>then if you copy the conf info over and reboot the kernel should do
<br>its thing and give you /dev/md0 (or whatever you set it at) as a<br>mountable partition. Of course, you may have damaged it in your<br>playing around, but its worth a shot as the information could well<br>still be there.
<br><br>--<br>Steve<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Yes, in trying to install FC5 I offloaded the raid info to an external drive then formatted each drive seperately as ext3. Now I've repartitioned each drive as a raid drive. I have not tried just copying over my
mdadm.conf so I will, but I'm still unclear why those drives are reported as busy when I try to create a new array on them.<br>