On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:33:01PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> > I booted the CD and typed `linux dd` and when it found the files it worked
> > beautifully.
> > Funny thing though it sees it as a very large /dev/hda (or was it sda) 34GB
> > drive and not a mda0 like a normal raid would... I think it's because it's
> > running hardware raid not software.
>
> sda hda is for ide, and mda is only used with software raid, with
> hardware raid the system sees the device as your run of the mills block
> device (basically) hence hardware raid =)
I've setup a compaq smart array and you don't use /dev/sda directly,
if you did that, you wouldn't be using the hardware raid. Instead you
use /dev/ida/c0d0.
I would guess its a similar situation with other raid cards, but
it probably isn't /dev/ida, but something else, like /dev/rd.
What sort of raid card is it? cat /proc/pci should list it.
> VFS: Cannot open root device 08:08
08:08 is /dev/sda8 I think, is that your root partition?
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