On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Mikael Johansson wrote: > > You can use the 'hdX=cylinders,heads,sectors' kernel parameter to make the > > kernel see the second drive the way you want it to see (I use this a > > lot) ie. identical to the first one. > > Hmm, it does sound a bit unsafe, one boot (from a CD, say) with the wrong > parameters and everything's screwed, right? It shouldn't be, really. I had a couple of situations where I forgot the 'hdc=' parameter and it all worked well. > > lots of identical drives gets different number of chs for > > hda vs hdb on different motherboards but is usally identical between hda > > and hdc and same between hdb and hdd > > > > so if you have a 2-drive raid1 .. just use hda and hdc as the > > preferred configuration .. > > My disks are located on hda and hdc, so the above seems not to apply in my > case. There is a difference on the buses though, I have a CD-drive on hdd, > while hdb is empty. Maybe that could explain why the identification goes > bad? I've never seen a situation Alvin describes. Your situation seems to be 'normal' though. I've had this on EVERY motherboard I used with SW RAID so far. Having RAID on hda & hdb is NOT a good idea anyway (plain linear might be an exception). 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
