On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Mauricio wrote:
I have 2 120GB IDE drives in the second IDE controller of a P4 debian/sarge box that I would like to set up as a raid1 array. Using info from the following links,
Are you aware that using 2 disks on the same controller is generally regarded as a "bad thing"[tm]?
I had personally lost access to a 2nd drive when one drive on the same bit of cable failed. Fortunately in my case, I didn't lose data on the good drive, but I wasunable to access it until I powered the PC down and removed the failed drive.
Read the paragraph under "Fault Survival" at:
http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-4.html
I'm sure you know this... Just checking....
Actually, I was not aware of that. Thanks for scaring me! =)
That said, hopefully this setup will not stay long like that; it is almost a validation/test setup.
> <after rebooting...>laurel:/# mount -o rw /dev/md0 /mnt
Looks like you forgot to mkfs the new md0 device..
I did forget that indeed! Thanks! Now all is well. =) - 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
