<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Many tx .. However ... after spending a day fiddling and googling .. it appears that I need the version for 2.6.24-19 ... not 16 as per your post. check out this link .. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/220493">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/220493</a> Being a newb I have no ideas :-( Attached is some snips of my attempts to-date... Still does not like it . Makes all of the right noises but there is nothing in /dev/mapper And when I do a modprobe -r and then a modprobe dm-raid45 it comes up with invalid module format. Please help Regards Peter <snip from post> <div class="boardCommentBody"> <div class="bug-comment"> I believe this is in hardy-updates: bdmurray@superman:~$ modinfo dm-raid45 filename: /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/ubuntu/md/dm-raid45.ko license: GPL author: Heinz Mauelshagen <email address hidden> description: device-mapper raid4/5 target license: GPL author: Heinz Mauelshagen <email address hidden> description: device-mapper device-mapper dirty log license: GPL author: Heinz Mauelshagen <email address hidden> description: device-mapper dm memory cache license: GPL author: Heinz Mauelshagen <email address hidden> description: device-mapper region hash license: GPL author: Heinz Mauelshagen <email address hidden> description: device-mapper device-mapper target message parser srcversion: E1BE8207EC7EC04F1B4FDA0 depends: dm-mod vermagic: 2.6.24-19-generic SMP mod_unload 586 </div> </div> Antti Mäkelä wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:Pine.SOC.4.64.0810071124520.7826@viherkiuru.cs.tut.fi" type="cite">On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Peter de Groot wrote: <blockquote type="cite">When I do an dmraid -l, it says that only raid 0 and 1 are supported for isw, which I am presuming is the correct device for this fake-raid setup ?? </blockquote> Follow the instructions in THIS bug: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/220493">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/220493</a> I used that to boot up Ubuntu LiveCD and installed Gentoo :) Anyway, the key part is this (for amd64, for x86, it's there too). sudo su echo "deb <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu">http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> hardy universe" >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update; apt-get install dmraid cd /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/ubuntu/md wget <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14522732/dm-raid45.ko-amd64">http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14522732/dm-raid45.ko-amd64</a> mv dm-raid45.ko-amd64 dm-raid45.ko Edit /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/modules.dep and add /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/ubuntu/md/dm-raid45.ko: /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko dmraid -ay Then you can mount your raid5 volumes just fine. Again, this is partially due to the fact that the patches here expect dm-raid4-5.ko, not dm-raid45.ko (even though Thomas Backlund on this list said that he's never had this issue - so not sure why this isn't being addressed). </blockquote> <div class="moz-signature">-- <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" height="99" width="1022"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="center" valign="middle" width="80"><a href="http://egc.wa.edu.au"><img alt="" src="cid:part1.04030900.01010804@det.wa.edu.au" border="0" height="104" width="120"></a> </td> <td valign="top" width="350">Peter de Groot Eastern Goldfields College Kalgoorlie 6430 Department of Education and Training Phone 90801800 Fax 90801866 Mob 0418915312 </td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://det.wa.edu.au"><img alt="" src="cid:part2.01040408.04080409@det.wa.edu.au" border="0" height="60" width="295"></a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </body> </html>