metamorphoise
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Joined: 04 Aug 2005
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 Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject: onboard HPT37X raid in individual mode... |
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hi, i'm just setting up everyone's favorite OS as a new fileserver, and would like to use the motherboard's onboard RAID chip (highpoint 370/372) as another 2 ide chanels, enabling 8 harddrives instead of 4. i have no intention of using any raid capabilities.
before i checked the relevant driver in menuconfig i had no /dev/md, and now i have in /dev/md
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elysium md # ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Oct 28 2005 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 29660 Oct 28 00:32 ..
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 0 Oct 28 2005 0
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the disk is new and unpartitoned so i must create a filesystem, but when i try # cfdisk /dev/md/ i get 'Opened disk read-only - you have no permission to write' then 'FATAL ERROR: Cannot get disk size'. trying # cfdisk /dev/md0 or # cfdisk /dev/md/0 both result in 'FATAL ERROR: Cannot read disk drive'
i only have one disk connected to it now, but will have 4 within a few days.
anyone got a suggestion to point me in the right direction?
i guess its a permissions problem, and unfortunatley i'm realy clueless with permissions.
thanks,
tom
edit: the above code snippet dosent appear on mine...here it is non-code:
elysium md # ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Oct 28 2005 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 29660 Oct 28 00:32 ..
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 0 Oct 28 2005 0 |
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