Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 13 Apr 2002 13:05:31 +0200 | From | "Marcel J.E. Mol" <> | Subject | Re: RAID between ide and scsi problem |
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Oops,
some info about the system might be usefull: redhat 7.2, with kernel 2.4.9-31. The scsi controller is an onboard adaptec controlle.
-Marcel
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 01:00:50PM +0200, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem booting a raid pair between a ide and scsi partitions. > > When booting the system the md driver comes in and tells me it can find > for example the hda2 device but not the corresponding sda2 device > and as a consequence continues in degraded mode. If I'm correct this > happens just after the hda partitons are scanned. > Later on the scsi driver comes in to play and finds the sda device. > After booting the systems runs in degraded mode, but I see the scsi disk. > Using raidhotadd I can bring the md to a normal state, but at the > next reboot the same problem occurs and the system is started in degraded > mode again. > > It looks as linux finds the ide disk (and the raid partions on it), runs > the md driver that figures the pair needs a partition on a different > (scsi) drive but this drive is not yet detected as the scsi init code > has not run yet... > > Building raid on two ide disks works just fine as does running it on > two scsi disks. > > Is a raid combination on ide/scsi supported? > > PS: shouldn't the kernel detect afterwards that the scsi drive becomes > available and start syncing the disks? > > -Marcel > -- > ======-------- Marcel J.E. Mol MESA Consulting B.V. > =======--------- ph. +31-(0)6-54724868 P.O. Box 112 > =======--------- marcel@mesa.nl 2630 AC Nootdorp > __==== www.mesa.nl ---____U_n_i_x______I_n_t_e_r_n_e_t____ The Netherlands ____ > They couldn't think of a number, Linux user 1148 -- counter.li.org > so they gave me a name! -- Rupert Hine -- www.ruperthine.com
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