Ruslan Sivak spake the following on 5/5/2007 9:16 AM: > William Warren wrote: >> rus, >> >> This is critical >> >> turn off the raid functions of your bios. You must do this or the >> fakeraid of the bios WILL interfere with md's ability to perform. >> Then try building the md raid. >> >> > William, > > This might be a bit of a problem. The computer is quite old, and I had > to get a raid card just to be able to connect sata drives to it. The > bios boot order only lists the cdrom (I can't even get it to boot from > floppy). The only way I can get it to boot off these hard drives is if > I have them in some sort of raid set up through the card's bios (even > concatenation works). Unfortunatelly, with concatenation, if 1 drive > dies, I am forced to recreate the array, which kills things. > I think I need to use the fakeraid driver. It keeps popping up anyway > with weird error messages. For example, when there is no raid set up, I > keep getting something like this: > > Error adding sda to set silxxxxxxx: Raid type 234 is not supported. > (This is from memory, so probably not exactly correct). > I tried updating the bios, but I can't even seem to do that. It won't > boot off the floppy, and when I boot of any dos based cdrom, I can't see > the floppy. (I have external usb floppy. The internal one doesn't seem > to work). > Russ Can you add each drive as a separate stripe? IE.. 4 drives, 4 arrays, 1 drive per array. I had to do that with an old promise card I used as a controller. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!