sage wrote:
>
> I'm trying to build a raid5 under using a 2.2.7 and the debian raidtools
> (version .42) and I'm not having the best of luck. I'm able to build
> teh raid itself without any problems, but as soon as I try to mke2fs the
> md device (or even dd if=/dev/zero to it) the whole system locks up.
> I'm trying to use 8 ide disks (using 2 onboard contorllers and an ide
> pci card)
> hda: WDC AC418000D, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: WDC AC418000D, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: WDC AC418000D, ATA DISK drive
> hdd: WDC AC418000D, ATA DISK drive
> hde: WDC AC418000D, ATA DISK drive
> hdf: WDC AC418000D, ATA DISK drive
> hdg: WDC AC418000D, ATA DISK drive
> hdh: WDC AC418000D, ATA DISK drive
You should not use RAID5 on IDE if you want to be able to run in
degraded mode. If you have a failed Master disk, both (Master and
Slave) disks on this controller are inaccessible and your RAID
array is unusable. I had a IDE-Master HD failure last week,
my IDE-Slave ATAPI ZipDrive was not found by OSs, I will try next
week with this HD as Slave.
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Seb
