Re: Problem with external RAID
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Jesus Roncero wrote:
> On Friday, 7 de July de 2006 23:32, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> From what I have been reading, the system loads the modules
>>> asynchronously using udev (I guess) and so that's why the RAID is
>>> assigned /dev/sda or /dev/sdc. I've been trying to figure out how
>>> to set the order at which I'd like the modules to be loaded, but
>>> with no luck. I've been trying to define a couple of rules at
>>> /etc/udev/rules.d/ in order to change the devices assigned, but
>>> all I get are some symlinks to the real devices in /dev but the
>>> problem continues to be there.
>> That's typical, I think, of Linux and SCSI.
>>
>> Are the drivers modules or compiled-in?
>
> the drivers are modules and loaded at boot time.
Ah, then think about compiling in the SATA drivers.
>> What if you set the RAID device to be noauto mount, and then create
>> a script in /etc/rcS.d somewhere after /etc/fstab is processed.
>> That script would "manually" mount the RAID device.
>
> The problem is not with mounting the devices, but with the name they get
> under /dev/ independently if they are mounted or not...
Right, they get assigned during boot.
>> Also maybe you could write udev rules to avoid the issue by giving
>> symbolic names to all the drives.
>
> I already did this but somehow, during the boot process, it would try to
> access the /dev/sdN and abort...
Try the compiling-in SATA drivers (that also means you won't need
initram[?]), and leaving the "external RAID card" driver as a module.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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