partition type

1999-09-02 Thread marco mille
marco mille wrote, hi all, wich type of partition can I do, for to do a raid1 software with raidtools ? because when I do cmd "mkraid /dev/md0" I receive a error "maik raid: aborted" can somebody help me ?? please! tanks marco

Re: partition type to autodetect raid

1999-04-08 Thread Piete Brooks
extra step of having to partition > the drive No big deal ... > (and in the worst case reboot to make the system see that you've > partitioned), No -- the bit about looking at the partition type is *ONLY* at reboot time. To hot fix, you just tell it, and it doesn't look at the part

Re: partition type to autodetect raid

1999-04-08 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, > The only place I would even imagine this would be possible would be in > the mode pages, but my recollection of the SCSI standard says that all > of these modes pages are read only. :( IIRC there are some writable fields in some drives to allow you to set caching/writeback behaviour, for e

Re: partition type to autodetect raid

1999-04-05 Thread Piete Brooks
> That's not the point: we don't even _look_ for a raid superblock unless > the partition is marked for autostart. Yup -- a *REAL* bummer if the partition doesn't have a partition type. > There are related problems we need to deal with regularly when building > files

Re: partition type to autodetect raid

1999-04-01 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 15:27:26 -0500 (EST), Laszlo Vecsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Isnt there room in the raid header for an additional flag to mark the > 'partition' type? I realize this might require a 'mkraid --upgrade' to be > run, but at least the

Re: partition type to autodetect raid

1999-03-29 Thread Dietmar Stein
Laszlo Vecsey wrote: > In the original docs or howtos, mention is made of being able to partition > your /dev/sdx device first, or just using it as a raw device.. which is > what I've done. Now that detection based on the partition type is > available though, its a little unfo

partition type to autodetect raid

1999-03-28 Thread Laszlo Vecsey
In the original docs or howtos, mention is made of being able to partition your /dev/sdx device first, or just using it as a raw device.. which is what I've done. Now that detection based on the partition type is available though, its a little unfortunate for those of us with raw devices.

Re: partition type not fe but "0xfd"

1998-10-25 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Craig , Try 'fd' not '0xfd' . Hth On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Craig W. Hansen wrote: > > > > this is my goof, it's not fe but "0xfd". > > > I tried this and the partition disappeared in fdisk. Any ideas? I'm > > using fdisk v2.1. > > [root

Re: partition type not fe but "0xfd"

1998-10-25 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Craig W. Hansen wrote: > > this is my goof, it's not fe but "0xfd". > I tried this and the partition disappeared in fdisk. Any ideas? I'm > using fdisk v2.1. [root@hell /root]# fdisk -v fdisk v2.1 (>4GB) [root@hell /root]# fdisk /dev/sdc Command (m for help): p Disk /d

Re: partition type not fe but "0xfd"

1998-10-23 Thread Craig W. Hansen
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Gary Allpike wrote: > > > However they dont seem to auto-start. > > > > I have set the partitions on the drives to type "fe" > > this is my goof, it's not fe but "0xfd". > > -- mingo I tried this and the partition disappeared in

Re: partition type not fe but "0xfd"

1998-10-23 Thread Gary Allpike
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Gary Allpike wrote: > > > However they dont seem to auto-start. > > > > I have set the partitions on the drives to type "fe" > > this is my goof, it's not fe but "0xfd". > > -- mingo > Thanks to all that replied - I'll test

partition type not fe but "0xfd"

1998-10-23 Thread MOLNAR Ingo
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Gary Allpike wrote: > However they dont seem to auto-start. > > I have set the partitions on the drives to type "fe" this is my goof, it's not fe but "0xfd". -- mingo