Re: Good hardware for mdadm

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i use two or more boot disks, if the first raid1 disk don't boot bios
go to second boot disk, third, etc etc, you must write grub to mbr of
each disk
i'm using dell server r410 if i'm not wrong

2014-08-29 17:31 GMT-03:00 Paul van der Vlis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hello,
>
> I like mdadm and I am using it many years. But in my opinion it has one
> disadvantage: when the MBR of the boot-disk is corrupt, the machine will
> not boot.
>
> A bios could check this. Wait for some kind of signal from Grub or
> Linux, and after a timeout boot from another disk. But I don't know
> about a bios with that feature.
>
> A PCIe card could do something like that, but I don't know about such a
> PCIe card.
>
> Is there such hardware?
> What do you do to avoid this problem?
>
> With regards,
> Paul van der Vlis.
>
>
>
>
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