Quoting Ben Donohue <donoh...@icafe.com.au>: > Hi Ken, > > after you set the raid setting, don't you have to then configure a > logical drive? > > what sort of machine is it? server? HP? > > also usually when you set it to raid it does not matter what the SCSI > drive ID is as the raid controller handles this. however i'm not sure > of this on all hardware. > > what happens if you only have one drive in and test? then two and > test? etc. is each drive recognized on it's own? see if you can record > the scsi id of each.
The box is a blade server, Xeon Intel board. In the Raid setting the drives are still recognised independently in Linux so it is not a true raid set up. I know that old DOS machines can only cope with 4 drives, so I figure it is some sort of compatability mode. Machine is a 64 bit so it could be that I have to use 64 bit install to get it to boot but I want 32 bit for the XFS recovery, there is a journalling issue acording to what I have read. Ubuntu automatically put a small /boot so it is not that problem, although that should not matter for a new bios. I don't need an answer, so much as want an answer so I don't struggle with this later. The machine is working 'good enough' and is currently dumping the XFS file system down using dd_rescue. I am not holding out hope that the XFS recovery is going to work, 348 gig out of 3.3 terabytes, 1100 errors already. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
