On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 17:41, Stephane Dudzinski wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 17:14, Barry Flanagan wrote:
> > You will need to do into the Promise config at bootup and set up the
> > disks to be non-raid, so they show up as good old hda and hdb (or better
> > yet put them on different IDE ports so they show up as hda and hdc - why
> > it is not done that way by default is beyond me).
>> Yeah, i wonder, i don't want evil SCSI emulation, all i need is plain
> hdX declaration. I also noticed a couple of SCSI errors when accessing
> the drives and it seems to be random (although always under heavy load
> like rsync over SSH).
RAID emulation over SCSI emulation.....too many cooks.
I actually managed to convert my live system from the ATARAID to
software RAID without losing any data. Followed roughly this:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO-4.html
A lot more fun than starting from scratch, but back up just in case!
--
-Barry Flanagan
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