On 03 Apr 2004, Ninti Systems wrote:
> I've been able to do everything involved in setting up a simple RAID1
> with 2 IDE disks on Slackware 9.1 except get it to actually keep
> working on reboot.
>
> I installed on one disk, built 'degraded' RAID1 devices on the second
> disk, copied data, etc. I can hot add devices from the original disk
> to the RAID arrays. RAID devices in /etc/fstab come up (in degraded
> mode) on boot.
>
> The problem is that hot-added devices never stick, the RAID arrays are
> always degraded again on reboot.
>
> mdadm complains of missing superblocks. I have read the man page but
> can't see how to manage superblocks (create/delete) if this is even
> possible.
>
> I'm wondering if have to make the original install partitions type
> 'fd' as well as those on the second disk?
The kernel auto-discovery will only probe a partition that has type
'fd', so if you want both parts of the mirror to work, both need to be
type 'fd'.
Daniel
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