use of udisk

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Doll, Margaret Ann wrote:
> I have two systems.  One is a RH server at 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64.  The
> other is a RH workstation at the same version.
>
> I have an array using a raid 5 setup which I formatted as ext4 on the
> server station.   I did this from the udisk icon that appeared in the top
> panel of my computer screen.  This program was extremely useful in that it
> told me that one of the disks in the array was faulty.  After I replaced
> the disk, I formated the array as ext4.  I could mount /dev/sdc1 on the
> server.
>
> I then moved the array over to the workstation.
> udisksudisks-1.0.1-4.el6.x86_64 is installed on the workstation.  However
> the udisk icon does not appear on the top panel even when I start
> "/usr/libexec/udisks-daemon &".
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I don't know udisks, but is this software RAID? If so, then you need the
drivers for it, and the workstation may not have that; in addition,
there's mdadm that you need to run to recognize the array.

       mark