Quoting Ben Donohue :
> Hi Ken,
>
> after you set the raid setting, don't you have to then configure a
> logical drive?
>
> what sort of machine is it? server? HP?
>
> also usually when you set it to raid it does not matter what the SCSI
> drive ID is as the raid controller handles this. however i'm not sure
> of this on all hardware.
>
> what happens if you only have one drive in and test? then two and
> test? etc. is each drive recognized on it's own? see if you can record
> the scsi id of each.
The box is a blade server, Xeon Intel board. In the Raid setting the
drives are still recognised independently in Linux so it is not a true
raid set up. I know that old DOS machines can only cope with 4 drives,
so I figure it is some sort of compatability mode.Machine is a 64
bit so it could be that I have to use 64 bit install to get it to boot
but I want 32 bit for the XFS recovery, there is a journalling issue
acording to what I have read. Ubuntu automatically put a small /boot so
it is not that problem, although that should not matter for a new bios.
I don't need an answer, so much as want an answer so I don't struggle
with this later.
The machine is working 'good enough' and is currently dumping the XFS
file system down using dd_rescue.I am not holding out hope that the
XFS recovery is going to work, 348 gig out of 3.3 terabytes, 1100
errors already.
Ta
Ken
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