On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 08:44:30PM -0700, David Ulevitch wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2005, at 8:10 PM, James Boothe wrote:
>
> >On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:05:50PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
> >
> >>("trivial" little things like dmesg, disklabel and fdisk outputs
> >>might
> >>be useful, too).
> >
> >Thanks for the reply. I got it working finally though. Yes I realize
> >it will show up as one disk in disklabel, that's pretty much the point
> >of ccd. The problem was it was only showing the first disk as in 80G,
> >not 200+80+80GB. I'm still not sure what the exact problem was but
> >about 8 tries and several reboots and obscenities later it magically
> >started working.
>
> You should do as Nick says. I suggest you now try to recreate your
> problem and understand it. Either discover that your hardware is
> going bad or educate yourself in the use of CCD so you don't fsck
> something up later.
>
> At least, that's what I'd recommend, if you care about your data.
>
> -david
HINT: These are 3 brand new drives. try the bad hardware line on some
n00b, not me :)
This was mostly a test done out of boredom to see how well ccd worked
and just how big a pita it was going to be so no important data was
harmed in the process.
