Scott Silva wrote: > 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. > > William, Thanks for the suggestion. I actually though of the same thing this morning, and added the first drive to it's own (concatenated) array. That seemed to work and allow it to boot. I still can't get raid10 to work, but I'll start a new thread on that. Russ