Forgot to mention, if it is swapping disks around having the slots not match the device would not be a bad thing because raid will write the raid information to the drive. If they get moved around it should still have the drives in the right order when reading and writing.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Peter Manis <[email protected]> wrote: > When I built my file server the raid card kept swapping with the boot > drive. Despite mounting with UUID and spending a lot of time on it I never > got it fixed until I moved it to CentOS. If something like that was > happening it would explain the movement in slots. I would check the serial > numbers a couple times after rebooting to see if this is happening. You may > need to erase the drives to clean all possible information about the array. > I had to when I created a test array once, erasing the MBR wasn't enough for > some reason. > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Chris Louden <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Peter Manis <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Have you moved any drives around? What distro is this? >> > >> >> No movement, possible drive failure. SLES10 >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > > > > -- > Peter Manis > (678) 269-7979 > -- Peter Manis (678) 269-7979
