On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > i suspect you dont have a spare disk ??? since you have 3 drives > and hde, hdg, and hdi is used... I don't have a spare. But that's not the problem. > - so the error message is correct ( it will run in degraded mode ) That line is of course correct, expected and even desired. :) The problem is, that instead of normal operation in degraded mode, I get a kernel OOPS and the RAID5 partition gets unusable (blocked IO). > - some motherboards/pci cards are dumb... > - you CANNOT boot off of hde,hdf,hdg,hdh.... > ( bad choices of mb for booting raid5 i suppose Booting is no problem, I CAN boot from hde, hdg and hdi. I have grub installed in MBR of EVERY disk, so if hde (the first) fails, I can boot from hdg. No problem here. > and yes... pulling the ide cable off of the disk is a good test for > booting and testing raid5... cool ... Now this is a bit of a problem. As I have removable disk trays I can simply turn one of the disks off. This should of course cause some IDE errors which should be detected by the RAID subsystem and the drive should be kicked out of all arrays that it is part of. IDE does report errors (hdX lost interrupt), but the RAID subsys never detects them. Or the timeout is far too long (I waited for an hour or so). D. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
