2011/12/29 Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:08:04 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 12/28/2011 3:16 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On a completely side note, have you considered in using a different >>> RAID level (e.g., RAID 1)? I think it would be a better option for >>> holding the operating system. >> >> The hardware RAID level has no bearing on this problem. > > Yes, that's why I said "On a completely side note..." ;-) > > I was more pointing to the decision of setting up a RAID 5 instead RAID 1 > for holding the OS. Yes, I know there are 3 hard disks in place but a > RAID 5 array can take more time to rebuild the 1.2 TiB volume and the > chance for a second drive to go off when rebuilding process is active > increases. > > (...) > >>> Hum... this is interesting. It points to some sort of problem with >>> Squeeze's installer :-? >> >> Correct. I don't speak/read Spanish, but you responded multiple times >> regarding the 9240-4i on the Debian Spanish list, regarding the same IBM >> X Series server. Thus when I started reading your responses here I >> assumed you had the answers the OP needed. :) > > IIRC (I've been out for 3 days) the user asked two different questions at > the Spanish mailing list. I replied to the first one that was about the > installer not recognizing the hard disks which was already solved. After > that, another problem (this) arised. > > Greetings, > Hello. Camaleon, the configuration with one disk uses JBOD. I have tried Debian Stable with only one disk, RAID 1, RAID 5 and LVM. None of them worked. But all of them worked with Debian Testing. I also tried squeeze-custom-amd64-0808, wich is a non-official release with support for newer hardware and that worked ok! It worked because it uses a Kernel 2.6.39 from backports. But the problem was that I have to install xen-linux-system, wich uses kernel 2.6.32, and when I tried to load it the server just restarted. The conclusion of all this tests is that there is a problem with the kernel and the disks, not the raid controller. I think is a problem with the disks, because when I used one disk with non raid configuration the installation didn't detect the disk, but the installation of debian testing did detect the disk. And when I used RAID 5 or RAID 1, the installation of debian stable did detect the raid controller and let me create the partitions, but it hanged up when it tried to format them after I comitted the changes. And with debian testing RAID 5 or RAID 1 worked just fine. Maybe I am wrong, but I think the problem is in the kernel and the disks. I think I would have to use debian testing. Thanks a lot for the help. If anyone has another idea about this, it would be great. Greetings. Mauro.
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