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| On Nov 13, 2:04 pm, "Noozer" <dont.s...@me.here> wrote:
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> I hate computers...
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> I figured, since my three 500gig drives were now empty, that I would simply
> remove my current 320gig and 400gig drives from the system and install only
> my 500gig drives. Then I'd simply do a fresh installation of Debian and
> finally move any data from my 320 and 400gig drives that I need. This keeps
> all my data on the 320 and 400gig drive safe for the process and should
> result in predictable drive assignments.
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> Man was I wrong!!!
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> One drive is a PATA alone as master on the primary IDE controller. The other
> two are SATA on the Intel ICH5 SATA controller. Currently there are no
> drives on the Promise SATA controller (but I do plan on adding another 500g
> here eventually).
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> I booted the Debian lenny installation disk, got to the point where I'm
> manually partitioning the drives. It's a simple setup.
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> hda1 - 500meg swap
> hda2 - remainder of hda as RAID5
> sda1 - 400meg swap
> sda2 - 100meg RAID1
> sda3 - remainder of sda as RAID5
> sdb1 - 400meg swap
> sdb2 - 100meg RAID1
> sdb3 - remainder of sdb as RAID5
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> Looks fine, right?
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> Well, I created the RAID1 partition. No problems. Formatted it as ext3 and
> to be mounted ro as /boot.
> Now, I go to create the RAID5 partition (which will eventually hold a LV and
> my / partition). I choose create, 3 partitions with 0 spares. Then I get the
> list of available partitions... sda2, sda3 and sdb3. WHAT??? sda2 is already
> allocated to my RAID1! Where's hda2? I cancel the creation. The partition
> display looks normal at this point.
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> Cursing ensues and I choose to delete a RAID partition. I'm given my list of
> RAID partitions, expecting to only see /md0, but NOOOoooo... I've got a list
> of five choices and none of them will do anything when I choose to delete
> them. Unfortunatly I didn't write the choices down, but they were similar
> to:
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> /hda0
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> /md0
> d0
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> I've booted the Seagate diagnostics and zero'd all three drives. I go
> through the process again and the exact same thing happens. Needless to say,
> I'm not impressed.
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> I'm using lenny because etch doesn't properly support the use of the Intel
> PATA controller, Intel ICH5 SATA controller and the Promise SATA controller
> all at the same time.
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> Does any of this sound familiar? Any idea what is happening?
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> At this point I'm strongly considering just using another distro, but I
> really liked Debian. I've already got Fedora 8 downloaded. I've tried to
> install it, but I don't see any method of creating a logical volume during
> the install - meaning that I can't put / onto a LV.
I'm doing something similar. I have a Intel ICH6R and have taken 2
500GB drives and created two RAID 0 volumes. I also have 2 nonRAID
drives. on the first RAID volume I installed XP and Vista on part 1
and 2, swap on part 5, SUSE 10.3 in a LVM with 6 partitions on RAID
part 6, and Fedora 8 on part 7. I put the boot partitions on one of
the nonRaid drives. I partitioned the Volume before I installed Linux
because I don't think that Linux can administer hardware RAID well.
I'm going to add 2 more drives in the last 2 ports and migrate the two
volumes to RAID 5. This is fun but I don't see where it's practical.
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