Gary Dale wrote:
> To elaborate, declaring them RAID in the BIOS will make them look
> like one drive. This would prevent mdadm from operating
> entirely. You would be relying on the motherboard's firmware to
> handle the RAID, which is generally not a good idea.
One general problem with BIOS raid
On 18/05/15 07:35 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:
On Mon, 18 May 2015 07:29:06 -0400
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
I want to run two pairs of HDs as software RAID 1 arrays, using mdadm.
Is there any point in declaring the HDs as RAID in the BIOS too ?
No.
:)
Petter
To elaborate, declaring them RAID
On Mon, 18 May 2015 13:35:16 +0200
Petter Adsen wrote:
> > I want to run two pairs of HDs as software RAID 1 arrays, using mdadm.
> > Is there any point in declaring the HDs as RAID in the BIOS too ?
> No.
Ta.
Cheers,
Ron.
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On Mon, 18 May 2015 07:29:06 -0400
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
> I want to run two pairs of HDs as software RAID 1 arrays, using mdadm.
>
> Is there any point in declaring the HDs as RAID in the BIOS too ?
No.
:)
Petter
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also sprach Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.12.02.0651 +0100]:
> Did you raid the partitions on the drive, I am guessing partitions, if
> thats the case, partition it up and then raid hot add the partitions
Right. So if sdb was replaced but it's identical to sda:
sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdis
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:10:27PM -0700, ghe wrote:
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> When a drive in an mdadm RAID1 array fails, can I just pull a new
> (identical) drive out of the box and replace it? Or does the new one
> need to be partitioned first?
>
> Or something else
On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:45:05 -0700
Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't know, but maybe you can use this:
http://www.rigacci.org/wiki/doku.php/doc/appunti/linux/sa/raid#checking_health_of_a_raid_volume
> I am running a software RAID on my Debian Lenny system. I have two
> hard drives
hi ya arne
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Arne Goetje wrote:
> > none of the "onboard raid" stuff worked in the past ... as far as i'm
> > concerned
> >
> > if you use hw raid, you're stuck with the sw they give you to
> > maintain/watch yoru raid system ...
> >
> > if you use sw raid, you can do anything
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On Saturday 06 December 2003 07:38, Alvin Oga wrote:
> none of the "onboard raid" stuff worked in the past ... as far as i'm
> concerned
>
> if you use hw raid, you're stuck with the sw they give you to
> maintain/watch yoru raid system ...
>
> if you
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 17:52:19 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Paul Morgan wrote:
>
>> > - disks doesn't fail as often as a power supply
>> >-- hint.. add a nice fan for each disk
>> >
>>
>> My experience is the opposite: I have never had a power supply fail, but I
>> have
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Paul Morgan wrote:
> > - disks doesn't fail as often as a power supply
> > -- hint.. add a nice fan for each disk
> >
>
> My experience is the opposite: I have never had a power supply fail, but I
> have had several disks fail.
everybody's experiences will be different
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 15:38:51 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
>
>
> generic disk failures ...
> - use SMART, enabled in the kernel and in the bios
>
> - disks doesn't fail as often as a power supply
> -- hint.. add a nice fan for each disk
>
My experience is the opposite: I have never h
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Andy Firman wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:41:56AM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote:
> > I have a mainboard (ASUS A7N8X) with onboard SATA controller (SiI 3112A)
> > and am planning to plug in two SATA drives and use RAID 1 (mirroring)
> > on them. Besides telling the controll
Em Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:41:56 +0800, Arne Goetje escreveu:
> am planning to plug in two SATA drives and use RAID 1 (mirroring) on
> them. Besides telling the controller to use them as a RAID array, what do
> I have to do on Linux (Debian unstable) to make it recognize the array?
Nothing, a
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:41:56AM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote:
> I have a mainboard (ASUS A7N8X) with onboard SATA controller (SiI 3112A)
> and am planning to plug in two SATA drives and use RAID 1 (mirroring)
> on them. Besides telling the controller to use them as a RAID array,
> what do I have
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Hi Alvin,
>
> I actually got it wrong in my original post: the first disk is on
> hdb. hda is a little disk that gets booted (boot and / are mounted on
> it). The disks in the raid don't get recognized by the bios. (I have
> tried everything...).
t
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:18:39PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote:
>
> > A side-effect of using RAID-1 (mirroring) is that the partitions
> > can be accessed individually. This can be useful in case of emergency,
> > but you would not normally want
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:54:47PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:18:39PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote:
>
> > A side-effect of using RAID-1 (mirroring) is that the partitions
> > can be accessed individually. This can be useful in case of emergency,
> > but you would
Hi Alvin,
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:08:42PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > I do not want to boot of it.
>
> okay... another step in raid-land for a later day to setup
I actually got it wrong in my original post: the first disk is on
hdb. hda is a little disk that gets booted (boot and / are mou
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:18:39PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote:
> A side-effect of using RAID-1 (mirroring) is that the partitions
> can be accessed individually. This can be useful in case of emergency,
> but you would not normally want to do this as your mirrors will get out
> of sync.
S
hi ya rudy
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
>
> I do not want to boot of it.
okay... another step in raid-land for a later day to setup
> > and more importantly partition type should be F3 ( linux-raid ) insted of
> > ext2 or ext3
>
> I had already made 3 partions (not in use) on
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:33:08AM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> I had already made 3 partions (not in use) on both disk EXT3, and made
> a raid one system with it. Now I have changed the type to FD (Linux
> raid autodetec). I could mount it also when being ext3.
>
> Can't I use ext3 on the rai
Hi Alvin,
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:25:39PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > I was wondering can I set up raid when a partition is mounted?
> > e.g. hda3 is /home and I want to set up raid1 with hdc3.
>
> you can do the "mirroring" ( raid1 ) of hda3 to hdc3
>
> but if you expect to boot off hdc
hi ya rudy
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering can I set up raid when a partition is mounted?
> e.g. hda3 is /home and I want to set up raid1 with hdc3.
you can do the "mirroring" ( raid1 ) of hda3 to hdc3
but if you expect to boot off hdc when hda is re
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:19:04PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering can I set up raid when a partition is mounted?
> e.g. hda3 is /home and I want to set up raid1 with hdc3.
If what you want to do is mirror an existing hard drive or
partition, then yes, it's possible. J
You'd think that since it's a mirror, it would work fine right?
Apparently not. Last time I tried this stunt, I nearly toasted 45 GB of
data.
Edward
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 23:19, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering can I set up raid when a partition is mounted?
> e.g. hda3 is /home
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