We lost 8 gig when we used RAID 0 software. 40 - 32.
Not sure if it is raid or the system (BIOS, hardware or even software) just
not recognising the full size of the drives. Which is strange as LBA and
all that is set right and it is a new system?
Oh well. :)
Richard.
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From: "Des Dougan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 12:33 PM
Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] RAID 0 installation problem
> I've been running Mandrake for over a year on an old Dell P133 server, on
> my home network. This system has a single processor on a dual motherboard,
> 2 4 GB SCSI disks and a SCSI CD. I decided it was about time to migrate it
> to e-smith, so backed up my data and started off. I decided to use the
> mirroring option at installation time, and generally it all went smoothly
> until the system completed the first stage process and rebooted. It failed
> with a kernel panic, and I realized this was because it seemed to have
> booted the Mandrake 2.2.14 kernel instead of the 2.2.16 in 4.1.2. I booted
> off the floppy I'd created during the installation, and it came up
cleanly.
>
> Now, I've done several e-smith installs, and I know it blows away the
> previous partition tables. This is, however, the first time I've tried
with
> RAID 0. Can anyone explain what happened, and what I can do to fix it so I
> won't have to boot off floppy again? One other point - I noticed that I
> seem to be lacking a fair amount of my 4 GB - /dev/md1 is about 2 GB,
> /dev/md0 is 15 MB and the swap partition is 256 MB. Surely the RAID 0
> overhead is not this high?
>
> I'd appreciate any pointers.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
>
> Des Dougan
>
>
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