Re: [opensuse] Cannot create raid 5 opensuse 10.3

2007-10-19 Thread Richard Creighton
Mike Coan wrote: On Friday 19 October 2007 02:07:49 pm Richard Creighton wrote: Richard, Thanks so much for your persistence. I did in fact try it in two stages, No problem ... glad it worked out raid 5 array that SMART finally indicated the drive was bad. A long time ago I

Re: [opensuse] Cannot create raid 5 opensuse 10.3

2007-10-19 Thread Mike Coan
On Thursday 18 October 2007 04:26:15 pm Richard Creighton wrote: [snip] Thanks for the reply. i am indeed using software RAID, not any RAID included with the motherboard. Your configuration is much more complicated than mine, and your RAID 5 is much larger than mine, so no reason mine

Re: [opensuse] Cannot create raid 5 opensuse 10.3

2007-10-19 Thread Mike Coan
On Friday 19 October 2007 02:07:49 pm Richard Creighton wrote: Mike Coan wrote: when the installation fails and I reboot and begin a new installation, I note that disks 3 and 4 are labeled md0, but disk 2 is not. perhaps it is a problem with disk 2. My next attempt will try to create a

[opensuse] Cannot create raid 5 opensuse 10.3

2007-10-18 Thread Mike Coan
I am in the process of building a new server for our small business. The current server is running opensuse 10.2 and has 4 SATA I drives. The first drive has /swap, /boot (ext2 50 MB) and /storage (reiserfs 75 GB). then there are 3 80GB drives as md0 in a raid5 configuration with reiserfs.

Re: [opensuse] Cannot create raid 5 opensuse 10.3

2007-10-18 Thread Richard Creighton
Mike Coan wrote: I am in the process of building a new server for our small business. The current server is running opensuse 10.2 and has 4 SATA I drives. The first drive has /swap, /boot (ext2 50 MB) and /storage (reiserfs 75 GB). then there are 3 80GB drives as md0 in a raid5

Re: [opensuse] Cannot create raid 5 opensuse 10.3

2007-10-18 Thread Mike Coan
Richard, On Thursday 18 October 2007 03:19:07 pm Richard Creighton wrote: {stuff deleted} Doing a clean install of opensuse 10.3. Again the first drive is /swap (2 GB) /boot (/ext2 50MB) and /storage (ext3 300GB or so). Drives 2-4 are md0 (460GB ext3) intended to be / As Yast is

Re: [opensuse] Cannot create raid 5 opensuse 10.3

2007-10-18 Thread Mike Coan
On Thursday 18 October 2007 04:26:15 pm Richard Creighton wrote: {stuff deleted} Doing a clean install of opensuse 10.3. Again the first drive is /swap (2 GB) /boot (/ext2 50MB) and /storage (ext3 300GB or so). Drives 2-4 are md0 (460GB ext3) intended to be / As Yast is

Re: [opensuse] Cannot create raid 5 opensuse 10.3

2007-10-18 Thread Mike Coan
On Thursday 18 October 2007 04:40:00 pm Richard Creighton wrote: Mike Coan wrote: Thanks for the reply. i am indeed using software RAID, not any RAID included with the motherboard. Your configuration is much more complicated than mine, and your RAID 5 is much larger than mine, so no

Re: [opensuse] Cannot create raid 5 opensuse 10.3

2007-10-18 Thread Richard Creighton
Mike Coan wrote: On Thursday 18 October 2007 04:40:00 pm Richard Creighton wrote: Mike Coan wrote: Thanks for the reply. i am indeed using software RAID, not any RAID included with the motherboard. Your configuration is much more complicated than mine, and your RAID 5 is much