, February 27, 2003 3:23 PM
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Subject: [expert] Multiple RAID devices
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Todd Lyons wrote on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:22:42PM -0800 :
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> An even stranger twist, this same external drive box works just fine
> when connected to a different machine with the same Adaptec I2O
> controller but only 3 drives as the RAID array 0. The system boots up
> just fine in that config
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 15:35, Steffen Barszus wrote:
> On Friday 28 February 2003 00:22, Todd Lyons wrote:
> > Has anybody else:
> > 1) Ever attempted anything like this?
> > 2) Ever seen this?
> > 3) Got a reasonable explanation for this?
>
> A bad termination at the raid5 drives could cause such
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 15:22, Todd Lyons wrote:
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>
> No need to say "the motherboard of the first system". That's a no
> brainer. What I want to know is _why_!
...
open the box up and make sure you don't have one of these:
http://idiotica.co.uk/images/news/archive/stripe2.jpg
or worse yet, one
On Friday 28 February 2003 00:22, Todd Lyons wrote:
> Has anybody else:
> 1) Ever attempted anything like this?
> 2) Ever seen this?
> 3) Got a reasonable explanation for this?
A bad termination at the raid5 drives could cause such bad behavior I guess.
if the extern box is not plugged in the ref
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Has anybody here ever tried to setup multiple RAID devices on a single
RAID controller? A good example is a box with an Adaptec I2O card with
5 drives in the machine in RAID array 0, then an external box with an
additional 7 drives that are in another
