Hello, I am planning to boot from a raid array of drives connected through a Promise Sata tx4. Even though the drive (only one for testing) is bootable (lilo ran correctly) and the tx4 has been selected in the bios (Dell Dimension 4100) as the first boot device, the boot process goes right through to the next bootable device on its list. I went into the tx4 bios configuration and was offered the option of configuring that single drive as "1+0 stripe". That process wiped the data of course. After rebooting from a knoppix I fdisk'd and mkreiserfs'd and copied another system partition. The next boot attempt was successful but I wonder what that "1+0 stripe" mode means. I only need my four disks configured as JBOD as I want to only rely on the kernel's raid5, and not on some (possibly buggy) card firmware for raid operation. Has someone already configured a tx4 as JBOD? Thanks in advance, -- A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
