--- Ben Steeves <ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 05:01:52 -0700 (PDT), jim higson <jh@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have 2 near-identical PATA 160gig hard drives, so I thought it would be a >>good idea to try a RAID-0 setup, since I'm going to be using this machine for a >>few disk-intensive tasks. > >> I have one drive directly connected to the motherboard, and one on a PCI card >> controller. At bootup the BIOS recognises the one on the mobo first, then later >> shows a seperate screen showing the drive on the PCI card. In Linux the drive >> directly on the mobo is /dev/hde and the one on the PCI controller is /dev/hdc. > Are you absolutely sure about that? It seems very odd that your > on-board controlers would get enumerated *after* your PCI slots... in > fact, I've never heard of that happening. Yes, I thought this was really odd too, but because the drives are slightly different models (SP1604N and SP1614N) I can see maps to which Linux device from their names. I get the same in Knoppix 3.3, which is a 2.4 kernel. Before I had the PCI card the drives would map to hda through hdd as usual. > On another note, you're using RAID-0, and there's really no advantage > to having /boot striped (in fact, it's a liability -- if either drive > fails, your system won't boot!). You might think about changing it to > a RAID-1 mirror. I don't know for sure that that has something to do > with it, but it might. The boot partition is mirrored, the root and swap are striped. I mirrored the boot so that (in theory) it wouldn't matter which drive the computer booted off. I've also tried a plain ext3 partition for boot, with no luck.
