Mike Cisar wrote: > Have tried to do a test install of FC5 on a system. The system has 3 SATA > hard drives which I set up as software RAID 1 (2 drives, 1 spare). The > drives show up in linux as SDA, SDB, SDC. > > Everything went fine so I shut down the system and pulled out the second > drive (SDB) to test the RAID, assuming that it would failover to the spare > 3rd drive (SDC). No such luck however, when I reboot and check the raid > status it is showing only SDA in the array, SDB is missing (expectedly) and > SDC is missing too. > > Took a look and see that with the 2nd drive pulled, the 3rd drive is showing > up as SDB now instead of SDC (which I think explains why the RAID didn't > failover). > > Question is... how can I make the 3rd drive always show up as SDC? Even in > a non-raid scenario I can see that removing one of your drives and having > the others reshuffle their drive "letters" would be a bad thing :-) > > Any suggestions appreciated. > > Cheers, >>>>>> Mike <<<<< > > This has always been a problem with SCSI drives. For non-raid setups, you can use volume labels or logical volume groups to get around this. You can also use udev to create rules for specific drives. I am not sure if you can do something like this for a RAID array. (I do not have much experience with RAID.) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
