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On Saturday 06 May 2006 21:18, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> The instructions say to enclose the parameter in quotes, but when I did |
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> that it complained Unknown ""-ay". Omitting the quotes enabled it to |
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> connect to the array (that isn't the word, but I'm not at that screen at |
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> the moment) and give every appearance of knowing what it's doing. But then |
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> when I run fdisk -l I see two 200GB disks /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, not the |
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> single 400GB disk I expect. Clearly, installing to /dev/sda isn't going to |
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> get me very far - not only will it not be the RAID array I want, but I dare |
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> say it'll break the array that the BIOS has created and WinXP is happily |
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> using. |
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The raid array will be a different device to the individual disks. |
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> I've googled all over the place, looking for clues. That's right - I don't |
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> have any ;-( |
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Check dmesg for info, or have a poke around in /dev. |
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> Can anyone here help out? Even knowing the format of the name dmraid |
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> expects for an existing array would help, but I can't find anything |
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> anywhere. |
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Do you actually need windows to access it too? |
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If not, scrap dmraid, and use plain old linux software raid. |
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