On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:51:15PM -0400, Forge wrote: > (Please skip to **less** or **minimal** for less verbosity) > > I have something of a unique problem here. I currently run three disks on my > motherboard and a 3Ware card. The three discs on the motherboard (the dmraid > arrays) are two WD 36GB Raptors in a RAID0 stripe (Windows is here, first > disk in BIOS), and a single 200GB SATA drive in a 'fake' array, ie a single > disk JBOD array. I do have to define the disk as some sort of array to have > it be accessible in Windows. > > **less** > > My problem is this: My linux install is on the single disk, and I can't > start dmraid there. It detects the metadata on the single disk 'array' and > wants to activate it, but it can't since Linux is already running from > there. > > I searched the man page, the --help output, and the archives of this list > back to last April, but haven't found any reference to anyone with a similar > problem. > > **minimal** > > Ideally, I'd like to be able to tell dmraid 'dmraid -ay --except=/dev/sdc' > and have it process everything *but* the device(s) specified. Hmm, that falls into the category: does dmraid need a config file? ;) Of course I can add a command line option to help this. Will think about the syntax for positive/negative device lists to scan during discovery. Put on TODO list. > > Would it be possible to get a patch with this functionality, and/or have it > added to the next rc? > > Thanks much in advance, > > Rich 'Forge' Mingin > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx PHONE +49 171 7803392 FAX +49 2626 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
