Scott Silva wrote: > 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. > > > This is what I've found as well. Would the solution be to make a raid5 (or 6) partition for / about 10GB and then once booted, set up the raid10 partition manually? How would I go about auto mounting it as /data or something like that? Russ