Hi,
After solving my problem with initializing raid 5 disk (thanks
people who helped from this list) i started playing around. (BTW the
solution to my previous problem was applying the correct patch ! :) if a
patch does not apply smoothly then find the correct one :-))
From hints here and on the 'net I though that boot raid was possible with
the latest
version(s) of the kernel, raidpatches lilo. However I may have been
mistaken.
I've attempted to created a RAID-1 device 0x901 comprised of two partitions
/dev/sde1 /dev/sdi1 (will eventually be moved to
Hi, I happen to came across a couple of statements that somewhat
involves the use of RAID, statements that I believe are not absolutely
correct, if not false, or half truths.
Both come from sources I believe to be respectable, but.. who
knows...
First: On Philip
Hardware Stuff wrote:
Grub can read from any normal FAT, ext2, or BSD, FS. This would include
a raid1 drive (which was what was mentioned).
Otherwise the proper way to do root raid is with a small ext2 partition
(8MB) that is speced on the initrd line. (IE initrd=/dev/sda1)
Hm, this seems to be a little summary of the mails and discussions who
had taken part of the list the last weeks.
Well, the corruption of data without being noticed by the parity
function is one secret; the other one is why this happened...
The comment: "99%..." is garbage, because it sounds like
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Francisco Jose Montilla wrote:
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Why would I want a two channel RAID card for RAID one?
By putting each harddrive on a separate channel, you can ensure that even
if a cable or terminator on one channel were to go bad, the system would
continue to function.
