problems installing with software RAID setup

[Ben Steeves]

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 05:01:52 -0700 (PDT), jim higson <jh at 333.org> 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.

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.

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