Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from "single-disk" to RAID-1 configuration

2005-10-25 Thread Mike Williams
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 18:02, Dan Johansson wrote: > Thanks for your input. Just one Question about setting the partition type > to 'FD' - should I do this for all Partitions or ? Which ever partitions you are going to create raid arrays from, but I don't imagine it would do any real harm to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from "single-disk" to RAID-1 configuration

2005-10-25 Thread Dan Johansson
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 12.27, Mike Williams wrote: > On Tuesday 25 October 2005 06:01, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > > DEVICE partitions > > > ARRAY /dev/md0 uuid=8ef83d67:79b230ba:6cc967c3:208b9224 > > > > AFAIK fd partition type is mandatory. Anyway is good to know that I can > > avoid explic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from "single-disk" to RAID-1 configuration

2005-10-25 Thread Mike Williams
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 06:01, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > DEVICE partitions > > ARRAY /dev/md0 uuid=8ef83d67:79b230ba:6cc967c3:208b9224 > > AFAIK fd partition type is mandatory. Anyway is good to know that I can > avoid explicit node names in config files. I'm not sure it's mandatory, but th

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from "single-disk" to RAID-1 configuration

2005-10-24 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 24 October 2005 22:02, Mike Williams wrote: > On Monday 24 October 2005 19:28, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > The most difficult thing was making disc naming sticky, I have a > > ASUS A8V with a Via and a Promise controller, and the disk naming > > was so sloppy that if sda failed all othe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from "single-disk" to RAID-1 configuration

2005-10-24 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 24 October 2005 19:28, Francesco Talamona wrote: > The most difficult thing was making disc naming sticky, I have a ASUS > A8V with a Via and a Promise controller, and the disk naming was so > sloppy that if sda failed all other disks were renamed to accommodate > in the free namespace, n

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from "single-disk" to RAID-1 configuration

2005-10-24 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 23 October 2005 15:53, Dan Johansson wrote: > Hi, > > I have a setup Gentoo on a Box with a onboard ATA Raid controller > (Promise PDC20265 FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100). At the moment I am only > using one ATA-Disk on this controller (this is the only disk in the > system). Now I want to ad