Raid Help

[watson90210]

I am attempting to setup a raid 0 to store my music on. I have 2 120 gig HDDs and they are both linux autodetect raid partitions. I have been trying this for sometime now with little to no success. If anyone could help me I would greatly appreciate it.

When I run:

mdadm --create /dev/md0  --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/hdd1 /dev/hdc1

I recieve this error:
mdadm: Cannot open /dev/hdd1: Device or resource busy
mdadm: Cannot open /dev/hdc1: Device or resource busy
mdadm: create aborted

Thank you to anyone that can help I would really like to be able to enjoy my music with limitless space.

[a_l_a_n]

Re: Raid Help

Ah man I wish I could help you cos I know your pain. Have been there. Getting my RAID 0 going took 4 or 5 installs and days ...

Unfortunatley for you I have repressed all memories of that trauma and dont know what to say to help, more than that I think I had to disable RAID in my BIOS and just use soft raid (the install CD took care of it once I had things correctly partitioned). I didnt have to go near mdadm explicitly. Only other thing I can recall is that, if you are planning to boot off the RAID, the boot partition will need to be RAID 1.

Good luck.