Re: Installation Problem
This is based on something I read in Linux Journal a little while back..
md is more than just for scsi devices. It allows you to specify raid0 and
raid1 (possibly also raid5?) for ide or scsi hard drives. You can turn three
physical hardrives into one logical partition, with striping, without
striping, maybe even with redundancy, though I am a bit foggy on those
details.
I looked at it, decided it would probably make recovering from a hard drive
bit-flipping situation harder, and left it alone. I don't mind so much
moutning my extra drives in other spots, though I can certainly see where it
would be useful.
btw -- it would help many people if you were to line-wrap at 74 to 76
characters per line. :)
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 04:46:44PM -0500, David Cureton wrote:
> Hi,
> I also have similar trouble on my system except it took a VERY long time for the boot to get past md driver. For the 486DX100 it took up to 30 second. I found that the problem diappeared after I compiled a kernal that was more like the one I wanted.
>
> You may want to let you computer sit there for a while before assuming it has hung.
>
> I think I read somewhere that md driver is a multi-device driver for scsi devices. Maybe someone on the list can shed more light.
>
> Cheers
> David
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