On 9/10/2012 10:41 AM, Veljko wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 08:05:49AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> I'm not able to find that card here (and I haven't so far), can I have >>> another one? >> >> That's hard to believe given the worldwide penetration Adaptec has, and >> the fact UPS/FedEx ship worldwide. What country are you in? > > I'm in Serbia. I tried several web sites of more known dealers, but it's > possible that they don't have everything listed there on their web > sites. If my boss approve buying RAID card, I'll call them to see if > they have it or if they can order one.
Try German suppliers. Surely they'd have it. >>> If not, how to find appropriate one? One with 8 supported devices, >>> hardware RAID10? What else to look for? One of the big reasons (other than cost) that I mentioned this card is that Adaptec tends to be more forgiving with non RAID specific (ERC/TLER) drives, and lists your Seagate 3TB drives as compatible. LSI and other controllers will not work with these drives due to lack of RAID specific ERC/TLER. > I didn't till 30 minutes ago. :) I just installed it for exercise if > nothing else. Had a problem with booting. > > "Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda > Executing 'grub-intall /dev/sda' failed. > This is a fatal error." > > After creating 1MB partition at the beginning of every drive with > "reserved for boot bios" it worked (AHCI in BIOS). So now you've run into one of the problems I mentioned that is avoided by booting from a real RAID controller. > Anyhow, this is output of "cat /proc/mdstat": > Personalities : [raid1] [raid10] > md1 : active raid10 sda3[0] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb3[1] > 5859288064 blocks super 1.2 512K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] [UUUU] > [======>..............] resync = 32.1% (1881658368/5859288064) > finish=325.2min speed=203828K/sec > > md0 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1] > 488128 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] > > unused devices: <none> > > I'm not sure what is being copied on freshly installed system. Someone else already answered this. RAID arrays require initialization of the drives, i.e. filling all sectors with zeros. Always have, probably always will. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/504f3dfb.80...@hardwarefreak.com
