>> Currently the HostRaid is disabled and removed one SCSI disk from the >> channel and now we are able to create filesystem over the disk >> partition and use it. > What was the setting of the disks under the RAID controller - JBOD? > RAID0? Pls. tell us so that we can learn from your experience. >
It was RAID-0. (As told by the remote person) > Also, did you run the fdisk again after disabling the RAID controller? > > What you are experiencing below should not occur if the hard disk was > fdisk'd as a "stand alone" disk. > Yes we did fdisk after disabling the Hostraid. >> # cat /proc/partitions >> major minor #blocks name >> >> 3 0 60051600 hda >> 3 1 409626 hda1 >> 3 2 10482412 hda2 >> 3 3 10482412 hda3 >> 3 4 1 hda4 >> 3 5 10482381 hda5 >> 3 6 2096451 hda6 >> 3 7 2096451 hda7 >> 3 8 2096451 hda8 >> 8 0 71687402 sda > > Does your initrd image contain the drivers for the SCSI controller? > Not sure about it. But we are booting it from an ide hard disk and I think it doesnt matter. > On which hard disk partitions are /boot /root installed? /dev/hda? > They are on the /dev/hda > What mount points are assigned to /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2? > /disk1 and /disk2 In another mailing list mailing list I was told that the Adaptec Host raid is not a harware raid but it a firmware based pseudo RAID and we need to create software RAID on linux. More on this can be found here http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2007-August/035946.html. Unfortunately the person on the remote side wanted his machine to be up desparately and hence we have just used only one disk with a workaround (parprobe /dev/sda). Thanks -logu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
