From: "Jerry McAllister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
One thing that comes to mind, as I read below, is that it appears you
setup the drives for RAID 1. Then you transplanted to them to a RAID 5
controller. "Of course" the partition data will be wrong. The hidden
blocks the two RAID controllers use are probably different and the
method of storage for RAID 5 is quite different from that used by RAID 1.
(Worse yet, you may have managed to hose the drives so that any data
on them is gone.)
{^_^} Joanne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisandro Grullon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Kevin and thanks for repplyng, sysinstall does not crach at all, the
problem is that the information is not retain by the label. I keep getting
that contact "Disk Geometry" error when I try fdisk into the volume/drive.
Any ideas what is happening. let me know what other information you may need
to assist me further.
I didn't follow all of this thread, so I may be missing something, but
check the FAQs and the list archives. Geometry error messages and
apparent (but not actual) mismatched have been discussed many times.
Nowdays disk geometry as used by the OS is generally "virtual" and does
not exactly reflect the actual physical geometry. In other words, from
the point of view of how you use it, unless you are creating special driver
code, the geometry is fiction and, as long as it works, take what the OS
says and ignore any messages from fdisk.
Now, if it is truly failing, you have non-fictional problems.
That is the lecture I was getting ready to deliver when I noticed
RAID 5 and RAID 1 with different controllers. RAID 5 and RAID 1 are
not compatible. And there is a good chance that two different breeds
of RAID firmware would store meta data for disk format differently.
{^_-} (Heck, I have seen two Promise cards that store it differently
or seemed to.)
On 5/24/06, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Lisandro Grullon wrote:
> > Good Morning,
> >
> > Last night I was trying installing a new Areca controller 1120 8 ports
> > using a 5 bay (300GB seagate) drives Raid 5. The main OS is install
> using the
> > SATA controller in RAID 1 configuration of the mother board, the
> addition of
> > last night was a separate controller I install.The install when good and
> I
> > installed my modules in the kernel, now my problem is when I try to
> > partition the volume using fdisk/label with system install it is giving
> me
> > nasty disk geometry incorrect error, can anyone tell me what is this all
> > about? Thank you.
>
> We'd probably need some more information. Does sysinstall crash?
> Does the fdisk information get written to disk anyway? The label?
>
> KDK
>
> --
> Zero Mostel: That's it baby! When you got it, flaunt it! Flaunt it!
> -- Mel Brooks, The Producers
>
>
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New York City College of Technology
Division of Continuing Education
Director of Network Operations
Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178
Lisandro E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<Albert Einstein>
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