Aah Damn!! It didn't boot off the raid.. just asked for the floppy disk.
Tried to boot off the floppy but crashed with a kernel panic not being able
to access or write or read the / partition, but I created it.
Is there a limit of the partitions being larger than 30GB? This is for data
only and not something stupid like / or /boot.
Also when creating swap space, what happens if you put somethign large like
1000MB as swap? Could that have been the problem as I remember 128MB was the
limit but this time it didn't complain??????
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 3:33 PM
To: George Vieira
Cc: 'Howard Lowndes'; Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5
> AAahaaaaa!!!! Got it.. I ran Bleeding Edge 6.2 which has a working raid
> support but found that I needed to patch the firmware on this server to
4.30
> and download the 4.30 drivers for linux.
Im a big fan of roll your own (if you have the time) =)
> I booted the CD and typed `linux dd` and when it found the files it worked
> beautifully.
> Funny thing though it sees it as a very large /dev/hda (or was it sda)
34GB
> drive and not a mda0 like a normal raid would... I think it's because it's
> running hardware raid not software.
sda hda is for ide, and mda is only used with software raid, with
hardware raid the system sees the device as your run of the mills block
device (basically) hence hardware raid =)
Sean
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