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DuckWizard
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Joined: 27 Oct 2002
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 Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 10:20 am Post subject: Strangest RAID problem |
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So after messing around with RAID for a while trying to get it to work (I have a Promise Fasttrak/66 RAID card) I gave up and created an initrd with the pdcraid and ataraid modules. This causes everything to work fine - system boots, I can login and everything is dandy EXCEPT - for some reason I have no /dev/ataraid directory which means I can't get to my filesystems. I can't e2fsck my linux partitions or anything which means they slowly degenerate and die. I don't understand it because the root partition is on the RAID array and it mounts just fine which means the system must be able to see the RAID partitions at some point. And when I look at the dmesg output, it shows that the RAID drivers load and it prints:
ataraid/d0p1 ataraid/d0p2 ataraid/d0p3 ataraid/d0p4 < ataraid/d0p5 ataraid/d0p6 ataraid/d0p7 >
which is exactly what it's supposed to do. Yet when I login these are nowhere to be found. Anyone know what's going on? |
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taskara
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wish I had an answer for you, but you can prob access your / partition, because linux is looking directly at /dev/hde (or whatever your device)
what happens when you boot form 1.2 cd and
| Code: | insmod ataraid,
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absi
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| Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 1:11 am Post subject: Re: Strangest RAID problem |
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Are you running devfs? What about trying to create the entries with mknod?
greetz,
absi |
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