Unable to create RAID device in RHEL, error - /dev/sdxx is busy
Issue
Unable to create RAID device on a host.
After issuing following command
mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1
it says that /dev/sdd1 is busy
cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities :
md0 : inactive sdd1[0](S)
292928154 blocks super 1.2
unused devices: <none>
- I installed 2 Fusion IO ssd drives. I can see both drives and am able to create/delete partition with fdisk. But, mdadm failed to create raid device with following error messages:
# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=0 --chunk=256 --raid-devices=2 /dev/fioa /dev/fiob
mdadm: cannot open /dev/fioa: Device or resource busy
- mdadm fail to create software raid device with
Device or resource busy
error message.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
- RAID
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