<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>That did the trick! i was breaking my head over this for hours, thanks a lot guys.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Wessel</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Ensure your partition type is set to 'fd'. You may also need to add this to your /etc/mdadm.conf.<br><br>--Tim<br>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS mailing list<br><a href="mailto:CentOS@centos.org">CentOS@centos.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos">http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos</a><br><div><div>On May 28, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Theo Band wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Wessel | Postoffice wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi All<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Currently i'm setting up a 5.4 server and try to create a 3rd raid device, when i run:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">$mdadm --create /dev/md2 -v --raid-devices=15 --chunk=32 --level=raid6 /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh /dev/sdi /dev/sdj /dev/sdk /dev/sdl /dev/sdm /dev/sdn /dev/sdo /dev/sdp /dev/sdq<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the device file "md2" is created and the raid is being configured. but somehow /dev/md2 is flushed when i reboot the system , same story if i create the file by mknod or MAKEDEV.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">does anyone know a way to solve this issue and permanently add md2 to devices?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>I think it helps if you set the disk flag to raid auto detect (fd =<br>Linux raid auto). Can be done with parted or fdisk (option t).<br><br>Theo<br>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS mailing list<br><a href="mailto:CentOS@centos.org">CentOS@centos.org</a><br>http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>