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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Problem with SATA and SCSI disks in the same computer.

Stephen,

I finally gave up trying to make it work on this machine. I put the SCSI
card in another machine that didn't have an array and everything is fine.
Thanks everybody for your help!

Charles

On 8/3/07, Stephen Gregory <oclug [ at ] kernelpanic [ dot ] ca> wrote:
>
> Do you plan to keep a raid on the SCSI drives?
>
> If so one option is to renumber you md* devices in mdadm and
> fstab. /dev/md0 becomes /dev/md1, md1 becomes md2, etc. Then add the
> UUID for md0 (on SCSI drives) to your mdadm.conf. You should be able
> to get the UUID from the mdadm tool. See the manpage.
>
> The other option is to destroy the raid array from the SCSI drives and
> recreate it. Blanking out the partition table on each scsi drive with
> fdisk should be sufficient. Before doing this I would physically
> disconnect the sata drives and boot with the gentoo boot/install cd,
> knoppix, or similar.
>
> UDEV should not enter into this. Your problem is not with the names in
> /dev/ but with the order the kernel detects the raid devices. UDEV is
> not invoked until much later.
>
> --
> sg
>



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