Ruslan Sivak spake the following on 5/7/2007 9:49 AM: > 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 I don't think you will get raid 10 out of the anaconda installer. I don't think it is supported yet. So even if the raid 10 driver is in the installer's initrd, you probably will not get a raid 10 from anaconda. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!