Situation
Perform a customised server installation of RH7.1 with RAID 1
Mission
Create a multi-partition RAID 1 set on two identical IDE drives, /dev/hda &
/dev/hdc (Seagate ST320410A).
Execution
Perform a graphical RH7.1 install, but when it gets to the bit about creating
partitions, select the "expert" mode which calls fdisk in the GUI.
At this point I selected hda and set up the partitions I wanted, noting that the
C/H/S was 2434/63/255 giving blocks of 16065*512 bytes.
I then selected hdc but noticed that the C/H/S was different, being ?????/63/16
(I think the ????? was about 38792, but it is not important) giving blocks of
1008*512 bytes.
I selected expert mode and altered the C/H/S to match the values of hda, and
then created the partitions.
All went OK after that.
Questions
1. Is this a problem with fdisk, or is it a problem with the drives?
2. Would I have been better off to set hda to the finer granularity of hdc, or
was I correct in using the coarser granularity that I did, or does it matter?
3. WTFG?
Howard.
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