Once it is set up and working, linux raid it is very stable. In a "production
environment" , the type of re-configuration you are doing is not very common
and I agree that the raid tools don't handle every possible situation.
As for your problem, I think you could still use my suggestion. Boot to DOS,
delete all the raid partitions (sca3 and scb3) with DOS fdisk, create a new
primary in place of the old partitions, re-boot to dos, format the new DOS
primary partitions and run fdisk /mbr. None of this destroys the data you are
trying to protect.
Now, re-boot with a linux boot floppy, re-create the MBR with lilo and use
linux fdisk to delete the DOS partitions, create the new partitions for raid
and proceed from there. That has worked for me, but I would be happy to hear
of a better solution . . .
Good Luck
alex
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Dong Hu wrote:
>
> It seems that linux raid is not stable enough for any production
> environment. A little disappointed about that. (How about windows
> NT?)
>
> Dong
>
>
