Need Help with Raid install

[wheel]

I am unable to install 9.1 in a Raid 0 config on my system. Note: I am a bit of a newb at this so I suspect I'm doing something wrong instead of some deep tech problem :).

 

Hardware: Dell 600SC with 2X36Gig Seagate SCSI HD's.

 

Steps:

) On the first HD I then created a 10 meg partition and mounted /boot.

3) Then I created partitions on the first HD for each of the suggested partitions (using the sizes I got from step one above, as well as all of the suggested mount points)

4) repeated step 3, but using second HD. set all partitions to type linux raid.

5) assigned each partitionX2 it's own raid partition (0, 1, 2, etc)

6) went into the raid tab and mounted all of the partitions to the appropriate mount point.

7) clicked done and got 'mkraid failed'.

 

Then I repeated this and watched for messages on screens 1 through 5 and got:

-running mkraid --really-force /dev/md3 (and so on)

- mkraid failed @/usr/bin/perl-install/raid.pm line 38

 

These were there after I setup up the partitions and formatted them (they didn't actually get formatted btw).

 

Then I saved or hit done and saw this:

- md: invalid superblock magin on .....

 

 

Any suggestions would be welcomed!

[wheel]

Failing any specific ideas, can anyone suggest the best way to get this looked after? I've been trotting around mandrake forums for a few weeks now without any suggestions on where to start getting some info. I'm also quite willing to read documention, if I could find any (no, I'm not volunteering to write some :) ).

 

Maybe even a bump in the direction as to whether you think I've got hardware compatibility issues or whether it's a sequence issue? Anyone using Raid 0 - do my steps in setting up the raid seem correct?

 

TIA.