use of udisk

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Doll, Margaret Ann wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:18 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>
>> Doll, Margaret Ann wrote:
>> > I have two systems.  One is a RH server at 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64.
>> >  The other is a RH workstation at the same version.
>> >
>> > I have an array using a raid 5 setup which I formatted as ext4 on the
>> > server station.   I did this from the udisk icon that appeared in the
>> > top panel of my computer screen.  This program was extremely useful in
>> > that it told me that one of the disks in the array was faulty.  After I
>> > replaced the disk, I formated the array as ext4.  I could mount
>> > /dev/sdc1 on the server.
>> >
>> > I then moved the array over to the workstation.
>> > udisksudisks-1.0.1-4.el6.x86_64 is installed on the workstation.
>> > However the udisk icon does not appear on the top panel even when
>> > I start "/usr/libexec/udisks-daemon &".
>> <snip>
>> I don't know udisks, but is this software RAID? If so, then you need the
>> drivers for it, and the workstation may not have that; in addition,
>> there's mdadm that you need to run to recognize the array.
>
> I didn't have to run mdadm on the server.
> The raid is setup on the raid system itself through settings on the raid
> system.

Ok, so it's hardware RAID box. Does it come with special drivers? If not,
there still might be a driver that you need to load or install that was on
the server, but isn't installed on the workstation - that latter's my
guess.

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