Re: Invalid argument error on raid5 create

On Monday July 8, bo@sosnetwork.net wrote:

Neil,

I am trying to create the RAID 5 array with

quoted

mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l5 -n6 -x1 -prs /dev/hd[bcdefgh]

However, I am getting the following error message;

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mdadm: RUN_ARRAY failed: Invalid argument

..

Any clue?

Maybe the raid5 personality isn't loaded into the kernel...
What does 
  cat /proc/mdstat
say?
Are there any message in
   dmesg
after the failure?

NeilBrown