[plug] RAID

[Andrew Barbara]

The IDE drive is a hot spare, and i also tried it without it.

>>> earnshawm at wa.switch.aust.com 06/26/01 10:17am >>>
I thought RAID 5 had to on the same architecture? ie all SCSI or all IDE
not a mix. From memory you can use different sizes of drives, it will
use the smallest common denominator for all drives.

Regards

Mike

#-----Original Message-----
#From: Andrew Barbara [mailto:Andrew at mmtnetworks.com.au] 
#Sent: Tuesday, 26 June 2001 10:04 AM
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#Subject: [plug] RAID
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#Hi I'm Trying to make a RAID-5 array with 3 SCSI and 1 IDE 
#disk on my debian box and it doesn't work.
#I have compiled the kernel to include the raid5 personality, I 
#have configured my /etc/raidtab according to the man page but 
#if I give it the command 
#mkraid /dev/md0 
#it says the 4 drives and all of their info but the next line 
#says that mkraid failed see /proc/mdstat and syslog for clues, 
#but they say nothing.
#What am I doing wrong??
#
#Andrew
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