RAID1 on sparc64

["Tim Kent" <Tim.Kent@centrixsystems.com.au>]

Hello,

I have installed Debian 2.2 on a Sun Enterprise 420R.  Everything seems to be working alright except software RAID, which is working fine on our x86 machines.  The patch itself installs cleanly as does the kernel build, it is just the 'fdisk' and 'mkraid' tools that give me issues:

# fdisk /dev/sdb
Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-8): 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): fd
Changed system type of partition 1 to fd (Unknown)

# mkraid /dev/md0
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/sdb1, 2356000kB, raid superblock at 2355904kB
disk 1: /dev/sda1, failed
/dev/md0: Invalid argument

I have tried running mkraid with the filesystem type set to 83 but this gives the same error.  This is my /etc/raidtab:

raiddev /dev/md0
         raid-level      1
         nr-raid-disks   2
         nr-spare-disks  0
         chunk-size      4
         persistent-superblock 1
         device          /dev/sdb1
         raid-disk       0
         device          /dev/sda1
         failed-disk     1

raiddev /dev/md1
         raid-level      1
         nr-raid-disks   2
         nr-spare-disks  0
         chunk-size      4
         persistent-superblock 1
         device          /dev/sdb2
         raid-disk       0
         device          /dev/sda2
         failed-disk     1

Regards,
Tim