Mounting drives after server reinstall

Hi,
I am about to reinstall/upgrade my server. I have had a problem several times in the past, where I have done this, and then am not able to mount the old drives. Whenever I have reinstalled Mac OS X Server (10.4.1), the arrays will show up properly, but will not mount, unless I "make drive available for use", which of course deletes everything. Has anyone encountered this problem before?
Thanks,
J

jealma wrote:I know the solution to the /dev/loop-problem. The new 2.6.25 kernel has the loop device as a module. Please try a `modprobe loop`, that gives you a /dev/loop. I don't know whether that will be persistent after a reboot, so you may need to add "loop" to the modules-list in /etc/rc.conf.
That worked, but I still have other issues with cd mounting, so I downgraded my kernel for now.

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