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From: Michael Evans <mjevans1983@gmail.com>
To: Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer@satx.rr.com>
Cc: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>,
	Linux-RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3 disk RAID1?
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:17:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4877c76c1003081917q5e6e9973vd4cc4124c511c57f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BB.BD.21054.3B3A59B4@cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com>

Quite odd, my AMD64 asus mobos work just fine.  Of course I have been
avoiding all NForce chipsets for years.

Maybe you should set the BIOS so that the discs are presented as AHCI devices?

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer@satx.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-raid-
>> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht
>> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 7:19 PM
>> To: Kristleifur Dašason
>> Cc: Linux-RAID
>> Subject: Re: 3 disk RAID1?
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Kristleifur Dašason
>> <kristleifur@gmail.com> wrote:
>> <SNIP>
>> >>
>> >> When in doubt, read the manual two or three more times.
>> >>
>> >> This might also help you: http://wiki.tldp.org/LVM-on-RAID  I wrote
>> >> some background comparison sections when I made that...
>> >
>> > Good advice.
>> >
>> > The contents of the manual didn't really stick for me until I'd
>> > actually *done* the tasks I was trying to figure out. The beautiful
>> > and classic Catch-22 of learning new things. So I somewhat
>> > empathically suggest you obtain a virtual machine program and start up
>> > a few disposable virtual machines. (VirtualBox is pretty good and also
>> > free.) Try creating some RAID's on VM's and getting them to boot, try
>> > failing a device and readding it, etc.
>> >
>> > And keep the manual in a window next to the virtual machine's window :)
>> >
>> > -- Kristleifur
>> >
>>
>> Exactly what I'm working on this afternoon. I've not created many VM's
>> from scratch so there's a learning curve there, but potentially making
>> the hard drives virtual in the new VM setup and then applying RAID to
>> them seems like a good way to practice.
>>
>> Additionally I'm going to purchase maybe 3 or 4 drives and then see
>> about using the other SATA ports on my desktop motherboard to create
>> additional storage that I can get some real performance numbers on.
>
>        Your mileage may definitely vary, but neither of the servers on
> which I run mdadm have motherboards which allow mdadm to recognize the
> drives.  For both of them, only drives 0 and 1 are properly recognized by
> Linux.  I had to purchase SATA controllers for both.  Both are Asus AMD-64
> motherboards.
>
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      reply	other threads:[~2010-03-09  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-08 20:39 3 disk RAID1? Mark Knecht
2010-03-08 20:58 ` Robin Hill
2010-03-08 21:04   ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-08 22:11     ` Michael Evans
2010-03-08 22:18       ` Kristleifur Daðason
2010-03-09  1:19         ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-09  1:26           ` Leslie Rhorer
2010-03-09  3:17             ` Michael Evans [this message]

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