Re: Maxtor IDE controller cards not working
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:11:05AM -0500, Greg wrote:
>
> I have a pc that I use as a fileserver and I have recently migrated it
> from RH 7.3 to Debian Woody (with some stuff from Sarge and Sid in
> it). I have 6 disks in the pc as follows:
>
> System/OS /dev/hda 4.2 GB
> data /dev/hdo 40 GB
> data /dev/hdm 80 GB
> data /dev/hde 203 GB
> data /dev/hdi 203 GB
> data /dev/hdk 203 GB
>
> I want to set up 3 disk RAID 5 array using mdadm and software raid.
> RH had no problem with it so I know it can be done. The disks that I
> used are recognized on the box as hde, hdi, and hdk. I can use fdisk
> to recognize hde, but fdisk will not recognize any other disk on the
> pc. As you can see from the dmesg, I am using several Maxtor
> controller cards (they came with the hard drives) - 1 hard drive per
> bus, each set as a master. During startup the BIOS gives the
> appropriate messages on the hard drives and the dmesg seems to suggest
> that the system at least can identify them. However, I cannot use 4 of
> the 6 disks in my pc. If I can mount and format them then I am sure I
> can set up the RAID array on the 3 I use for a RAID array
Have you checked to see if the device nodes exist in /dev? I suspect
you will find that they don't. On the system I just checked it stops at
/dev/hdh20, beyond that you would need to create them. Alternatively
you could look into devfs.
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Jamin W. Collins
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