On 11/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">James Pifer</b> <<a href="mailto:jep@obrien-pifer.com">jep@obrien-pifer.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;">
<br>It tries, but I still get the same thing :-( :<br><br>[root@storage ~]# mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --assume-clean --force --level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/hdb /dev/hdc dev/hdd<br>mdadm: layout defaults to left-symmetric
<br>mdadm: chunk size defaults to 64K<br>mdadm: /dev/hdb appears to contain an ext2fs file system<br> size=312581632K mtime=Wed Nov 15 09:54:22 2006<br>mdadm: /dev/hdb appears to be part of a raid array:<br> level=raid5 devices=3 ctime=Wed Nov 15 09:42:22 2006
<br>mdadm: /dev/hdc appears to be part of a raid array:<br> level=raid5 devices=3 ctime=Wed Nov 15 09:42:22 2006<br>mdadm: Cannot open dev/hdd: No such file or directory<br>mdadm: create aborted<br>[root@storage ~]#</blockquote>
<div><br>No guarantee of success, but you could try executing this from the root directory, rather than root's home directory.<br><br>Carl Fongheiser<br></div><br></div><br>