Re: RAID migration from 2.4 -> 2.6

[Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@web.de>]

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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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