On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:23:17 -0600, linas@austin.ibm.com wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:42:18PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > > > I personally think auto-detect is the wrong approach and have no > > desire to extend it to other partition types (I cannot remove it from > > DOS partitions as that breaks back-compatability). > > Just use "md=..." > > What's wrong with autodetect? Its saved my butt a number of times. > > My recurring nightmare is involves a failed ide controller. If the > failed controller is on the motherboard, then plugging in a store-bought > ide controller causes the BIOS to "randomly" renumber to hard drives. > (yes, sorry this is a PC issue, but I would guess that similar issues > lurk in open firmware, etc). Indeed. Speaking for myself only, the whole issue has only come about because somewhere after 2.4.20, the handling of Promise add-on IDE controllers was changed so that where the Promise hard drives on the Apple Xserve were previously /dev/hde to /dev/hdh and the "mainboard" IDE (which only handles the CD-ROM) was /dev/hda to /dev/hdd, their internal order is now reversed, and for some reason I am unable to get the metadevice to work after the change (so am effectively unable to update my kernel as root is on md). -- Atro Tossavainen (Mr.) / The Institute of Biotechnology at Systems Analyst, Techno-Amish & / the University of Helsinki, Finland, +358-9-19158939 UNIX Dinosaur / employs me, but my opinions are my own. < URL : http : / / www . helsinki . fi / %7E atossava / > NO FILE ATTACHMENTS - 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
