On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 01:18:33PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:07:53PM -0400, William Lynch wrote: > > > > I have a question that I was hoping someone could help with. I'm > > using a RAID5 for storage. 3 disks. However, 2 of the discs are > > internal, and 1 is an external usb drive. When I restart the > > machine, /dev/sda1 (the usb drive) is never brought back up with the > > rest of the drive, and it's in a degraded state. It seems to do this > > (off of dmesg) because the usb drive is brought up after the raid5 is > > brought up. Is there any way to delay the startup of the raid5 until > > after usb drives are seen? > > > > At what point in boot is the raid5 setup? At what point are USB drives > detected? If your root is on raid5, it likely has to be setup prior to > detecting USB devices. maybe rebuild the kernel with USB compiled in statically. A
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