On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Jan Stavel wrote:
> I switched off raid in Bios and installed Software Raid: > > Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] > md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] > 497856 blocks [2/2] [UU] good > But if I try to power off a disk (unplug the power cable) the system > freezes. I cannot read /proc/mdstat. The only way to get the system > running is to do restart. some motherboards does NOT like ( recognize ) tne 2nd disk on the same ide cable if the primary disk is offline > Do I do something wrong when trying hardware fauilure? unplugging the ide cable or power cable to the drive is a ( real) good test of software raid testing you can also dd if=/dev/zero on the disk ( /dev/hdc ) too and try to see if the sw raid ( running on /dev/hda ) rebuilds it for you c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
