Package: install
Severity: important
sarge 3.1r0a 1386 net
bug when trying to install with software RAID Using 3-Ware
8506-12, 12 port SATA controller regardless of 2.4 or 2.6 kernel. After
setting up partitions & soft RAID the setup would hang when installing
the kernel if more than 8 disks were used as active or spare.
Cause : Found that only sda - sdh were created and defined as devices in
/dev. The 3ware driver saw the disks but mdadm and fdisk did not.
Solution: Installed onto 2 drives RAID I, Created block devices sdi -
sdl w/ corresponding partitions sd[?]1-15.fdisk and mdadm were then able
to partition and setup RAIDs. Was able to make RAID 5 with 12 devices.
FYI hardware /dev/sd[a-l] must have minor number multiple of 16 to work.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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