SW RAID 1 (install) problem on FC3
Mark
msalists at gmx.net
Wed Apr 6 20:44:14 UTC 2005
> > > 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
> >
> > I don't see why you think the problem would be putting the
> > hard drive and the CDROM on the same controller. It is no
> > problem. The IDE bus handles the different speeds properly
> > itself and the CDROM does not constantly slow down the
> > transfer rate for the hard drive. I even would imagine that
> > the CDROM is used only rarely compared with the hard drive
> > being part of a RAID1 array.
> I thought people usually say you should keep HDs and CD-ROMs
> separate so the CD-ROM does not slow down the HD. But maybe
> that is not true for newer systems any more, or it has always
> been an urban legend...
>
> Anyway, I had problems with the current configuration before,
> because running only the CDROM on the second controller
> caused the machine not to boot unless I used "ide=nodma".
> That however caused problems with a "lost too many ticks"
> error. So I figured mixing HD and CD-ROM would make even more
> problems than having the CDROM by itself on that controller
> port. But I guess I was wrong. I now have both HDs as master
> on the two IDE ports and the CD-ROM as slave on the secondary
> IDE and everything works fine. RAID 1 has normal speed,
> install ran through at normal speed and I can now even boot
> without "ide=nodma".
Damn, I guess I was too fast with saying "Fixed"...
RAID 1 is ok, but I still need "ide=nodma"
Without it, I get further than I used to, but I now get stuck after
"Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode [OK]"
The next step would be:
"Setting up logical volume management" or something like that
So I guess I have to keep the "ide=nodma"...
MARK
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