On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:49:17AM -0400, Brian Keener wrote:
> On 6/7/06, Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 07:43:26AM -0400, Brian Keener wrote:
> >> dmraid -r
> >> /dev/hdb: nvidia, "nvidia_hbjebege", mirror, inconsistent, 488281248
> >> sectors, data@ 0
> >> /dev/hdd: nvidia, "nvidia_hbjebege", mirror, inconsistent, 490234750
> >> sectors, data@ 0
> >>
> >> It's an nforce3 250 chipset with two 250 gig IDE drives, one primary
> >slave,
> >> one secondary slave.
> >>
> >> I JUST set this raid up last night.
> >>
> >> Nvidia's bios-based config utility reports the status as good.
> >>
> >> My suspicion is that it's still initializing the array...
> >
> >Yes, the OS ( i.e. device-mapper) needs to do it.
>
>
> Is this something that should be happening automatically, or do I need to
> initiate this somehow?
It should happen automatically, unless the BIOS reports the wrong state
or dmraid interprets it wrongly.
I'ld like to know about either case ;-)
Heinz
It still reported "inconsistent" as of last night.
Using the built-in RAID didn't really make sense considering this was a reiserfs partition I was mirroring and windows won't even recognize it, so I rebuilt as a standard software mirror using mdadm.
Brian K
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