On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:11:05AM -0500, Greg wrote: > > I have a pc that I use as a fileserver and I have recently migrated it > from RH 7.3 to Debian Woody (with some stuff from Sarge and Sid in > it). I have 6 disks in the pc as follows: > > System/OS /dev/hda 4.2 GB > data /dev/hdo 40 GB > data /dev/hdm 80 GB > data /dev/hde 203 GB > data /dev/hdi 203 GB > data /dev/hdk 203 GB > > I want to set up 3 disk RAID 5 array using mdadm and software raid. > RH had no problem with it so I know it can be done. The disks that I > used are recognized on the box as hde, hdi, and hdk. I can use fdisk > to recognize hde, but fdisk will not recognize any other disk on the > pc. As you can see from the dmesg, I am using several Maxtor > controller cards (they came with the hard drives) - 1 hard drive per > bus, each set as a master. During startup the BIOS gives the > appropriate messages on the hard drives and the dmesg seems to suggest > that the system at least can identify them. However, I cannot use 4 of > the 6 disks in my pc. If I can mount and format them then I am sure I > can set up the RAID array on the 3 I use for a RAID array
Have you checked to see if the device nodes exist in /dev? I suspect you will find that they don't. On the system I just checked it stops at /dev/hdh20, beyond that you would need to create them. Alternatively you could look into devfs. -- Jamin W. Collins "Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups." -- John Kenneth Galbraith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
