Hello,

I need help from someone please. I have a compaq SCSI array that I'm trying to mount to use as a single drive.

Can someone please help me? It's a seven drive array but one drive is bad so this is what I've done so far. I went to Fdisk and have formatted them as a software raid. The drives are listed as follows:

/dev/sda
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdc
/dev/sdd
/dev//sde

Now, I know that I have to go into the /etc/fstab file, however, I do not know what I have to do there to mount the drives. Yesterday, I made a mess when I tried to go in there and corrupted it. Fortunately, I recovered the system but I don't want to do that again.

If someone would be patient enought to give me step-by-step help here, I'd appreciate it. Thanks a lot.

If they were formatted for soft raid, they need to be partitioned as fd, Linux Self-Detecting RAID, not just vanilla 83 Linux or Linux Swap. Then you need to make an /etc/raidtab, there's a sample with raidtools... then run mkraid /dev/md0, check in /proc/mdstat and wait for the kid to parrallelize, then format it for whatever filesystem... ext3, ext2, xfs, etc... and then it should be one whopping mountable chunk with /dev/md0

I forgot the partition part of that last weekend If you've done the rest it should get detected automagically if you just change the partition types (although the sizes have to stay the same).

Cheers,

Finegan