Alan Cox wrote:
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:48:44 +0100
Hein-Pieter van Braam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Man, what a quirky BIOS!
Hum... I can pvcreate on the md device just fine, but after that, pvscan
won't find it...
I have a suspicion that there's a BIOS doing some sector hiding or
replacement of sorts...
*facepalm*
That would make sense. However we have weapons to make it surrender. See
the "dmraid" tool - you should be able to use that as an example of how
to set up device mapper mapped linear mappings to "unshift" partitions.
...
Ahh.. So dmraid is a way to work with using the HighPoint BIOS to define RAIDs.
But not so advisable for maintaining adaptor-neutral pure Linux s/w RAID.
Right?
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