On Saturday 07 December 2002 17:04, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Meir Kriheli on 2002-11-14: > > I've answered similar question some time ago. See this thread in the > > archives: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200208/msg00953.html > > Thank you! I finally had time to try the installation again > (interference from real life)... > > Quoting the referenced mail: > > Write down the numbers, reboot the install cd again and at the boot > > prompt write: > > > > bf24 ide2=0x(a),0x(b+2) ide3=0x(c),0x(d+2) > > > > b+2 means the value of b incremented by 2, and same applies to d+2. > > > > Now the controller and raid should be detected. > > This seems to work. However, this identifies the two disks in the RAID > systems as two different disks (hde and hdg), with identical contents; > it does not identify them as one [mirrored] RAID disk. If I would > continue to install on one of this disks, I assume that this would not > mean that the contents will be mirrored, so I don't think this can be > used.
The raid device is used via a different node, e.g: /dev/ataraid/d0p1 > > I was very disappointed by it. While working I pulled the plug on one > > of the hd's (RAID1 config) to simulate a dying HD, lot of timeout > > message started appearing and the systems froze. Once restarted the > > system didn't boot. > > As far as I can tell from the specs, this seems to be the documented > behaviour, it will not run on only one disk, and once restarted a new > disk must be inserted and the array be rebuilt before it is possible to > continue... > > > Maybe I should just give up, put the two disks on the standard IDE > controllers and just run software RAID instead? > Yep, I guess that's an option :-) -- Meir Kriheli MKsoft systems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
