On Thursday 12 August 2004 17:29, you wrote: > At the moment I'm stumped, so I wonder if someone might be able > to give me a hand. > > First, my RAID setup: I have a pair of Adaptec 7899 controllers > with five 9GB SCSI disks on each. The first disks on each controller > are allocated in a RAID 1 configuration for boot, swap, /usr, etc., > while the next three disks on each controller are allocated in > a RAID 5 configuration to our running services and data. The last > disk on each controller is designated as a spare disk for each RAID. > > These RAIDs work well with 2.4. I've got them configured > for autodetect, so the system brings them up at startup in 2.4. > > Now I'm trying to migrate to 2.6.7, and autodetection basically > ignores all my SCSI disks. I get three lines: Does those partions have the FD type flag (linux raid autodetect)? With some 2.4.X kernel versions it worked without it, but I think with 2.6.X you really need to mark the partitions with this partition type. Hope it helps, Bernd PS: Sometimes I forget to set this flag and then have the same problem ;)
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