On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:13:26AM +0200, Goetz Bock wrote: > > Hallo Jens, > > > ich hab schon wieder ein "Problem". > Well, it might be a good idea to write your requests to an international > mailing list in english ... Well, Jens probably wanted to send it to me personally :-) > so let's translate your questions (not a strict translation) > > > > Auf meinem Mainboard ist ein Promise Fasttrack 100 Controller. > > > Die Festplatten kann ich ueber /dev/hd[e-h] ansprechen. > > My mainboard features a Promise Fasttrack 100 Controller, and I can > > access my harddrives as /dev/hd[e-h] > > > > > Es gibt aber auch die Moeglichkeit das Hardware Raid anzuspechen ueber > > > /dev/ataraid/d[0-2]px , mit x als Partitionsnummer. > > But there is also the option to use the hardware raid as > > /dev/ataraid/d[0-2]px, with x beeing the partition number > > > > > Beim Aufruf von vgcreate passiert folgendes : > > when calling vgcreate like this: > > vgcreate gl_lvm /dev/ataraid/d0p1 > > vgcreate -- physical volume name "/dev/ataraid/d0p1" is invalid > For this to work, you must first use pvcreate to add the LVM's PV > information to your device: > pvcreate /dev/ataraid/d0p1 > > But this will not help you, as pvcreate checls the device name against a > list of valid devices, and /dev/ataraid is not port of this (at last not > in the way outdated 0.9.1beta5 src I've on this system) > > OOTH you should not trust the bios based softraid of any of the consumer > raid devices, it is no hardware raid (not just MHO). If you want to do raid > with IDE devices, I'd suggest using the kernel based MD drivers, and putting > every IDE disk on it's own channel. Yes, but if Jens still wants it, "atatraid" needs to be added to the _devdir array in lvm_dir_cache.c. In future LVM you just change/add an entry to a central config file. > > -- > Goetz Bock IT Consultant > Dipl.-Inf. Univ. -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-