On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:03:46PM -0700, lokemout-1@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Ok, first off I think I'm way outa my league posting here. I'm > a fedora user, currently using fedora 6. I have one of those > FakeRaid systems, specifically NVidia raid on an Asus M2V-MX > motherboard. So I thought I'd give it a try, which by the way > went smooth as silk to setup a Raid1 mirror and install FC6. I > was so happy! > > Problem is, I cant leave well enough alone. I just had to know > if it would work if I unplugged a drive. I did this while linux > was up and running, froze the system for a few seconds then gave > me a bunch of errors on the console. The freeze is caused by the IDE driver timeout. > Fine, though, I thought so > long as it keeps running I'm ok. Only it didnt, I listed a > directory and the thing finally hung. Hrm, any error log you could provide for this ? > > So then I thought, dont be discouraged, lets just reboot with > one drive missing and see if a "degraded" raid mirror would boot > and FC6/dmraid would do the right stuff. Nope, hangs almost > immediately after loading initrd. > Looks like its unhappy cause > it knows one of the physical drive is missing. Known issue. initrd has the mapping tables statically build in. Fix is in the works. > > So now I'm thinking I just dont know what I should be expecting > out of a mirror raid, or maybe there is a way to tell the kernel > to load with a degraded mirror by editing the kernel line? No, initrd got to change to call "dmraid.static -ay" in order to discover the degraded mirror and activate the available one rather than using static information pointing at both drives (with one not existing any more). > I've > been reading all sorts of stuff and hunting for some guidance > but nothing so far. So I found this list, and well, you know > what follows when that happens e.g. a newby post. > > So please please please, could someone point me in the right > direction? Maybe that helps. You gotta wait for the mkinitrd update to fix the initrd issue. > > Thanks! > Bob > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ataraid-list mailing list > 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 mailing list Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
