raid1 with kernel 2.6.9-2-k7
I upgraded to 2.6.9-2-k7 on Debian. My raid array does not seem to 
be working:
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] 
md0 : inactive
unused devices: <none>
my raidtab file is:
# cat /etc/raidtab 
raiddev /dev/md0
        raid-level      1
        nr-raid-disks   2
        nr-spare-disks  0
        chunk-size     4
        persistent-superblock 1
        device          /dev/hda
        raid-disk       0
        device          /dev/hdc
        raid-disk       1
when i probe w/ mdstat:
# mdadm -D /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
        Version : 00.90.01
  Creation Time : Wed Jan  5 20:14:11 2005
     Raid Level : raid1
    Device Size : 40146560 (38.28 GiB 41.11 GB)
     Raid Disks : 2
    Total Disks : 0
Preferred Minor : 0
    Persistance : Superblock is persistant
    Update Time : Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
          State : dirty, no-errors
  Active Drives : 0
 Working Drives : 0
  Failed Drives : 0
   Spare Drives : 0
    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDisk   State
       0       0        0       -1      removed
       1       0        0       -1      removed
and when i try to mkraid i get:
# mkraid  /dev/md0
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/hda, 40146624kB, raid superblock at 40146560kB
/dev/hda appears to be already part of a raid array -- use -f to
force the destruction of the old superblock
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
and the kern.log says:
Jan  5 20:14:11 trader kernel: md: could not bd_claim hda.
Jan  5 20:14:11 trader kernel: md: error, md_import_device() returned 
-16
do i have any hope of fixing this? if so, how?!
thanks!
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