Thanks, I will try putting them on different controller ports. Problem is that I then have to put the HD and CDROM together on one controller, but I'll see how that turns out... Guess it can only get better - or not work at all any more MARK > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 11:26 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: SW RAID 1 (install) problem on FC3 > > > Am Mi, den 06.04.2005 schrieb Mark um 19:42: > > > I had them running over night, more than 12 hours, but it's still > > running. > > That sounds much too much time. Although, Brian made a good > argument. 2 IDE hard drives on 1 controller have a very > sub-optimal performance as always only 1 drive can send data > over the wire (master / slave configuration). If any possible > you should avoid that setup. > > > But the point is: there is nothing on there, it's a fresh install. > > There should not be a sync in the first place, especially not right > > after formatting them... Isn't strange? > > Not strange, but normal. The sync of the RAID array drives > after the initial install has to happen. > > > MARK > > I recently installed a new server with a software RAID1 of > ~200 GB (2 fast SATA drives) and the initial sync took about > 60 minutes with sync rates between 60 MB/sec and 48 MB/sec. I > did let it run and made a pause to not interfere it with > other install and configuration tasks. On console I observed it with: > > watch -n 60 cat /proc/mdstat > > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu > 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html > Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.10-1.771_FC2smp > Serendipity 20:19:38 up 7 days, 17:46, load average: 0.71, 0.65, 0.57 >
