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PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:44 pm    Post subject: Additional; Hard Drives Don't show up [SOLVED] Reply with quote

Hello, back once again. I have four hard drive on my system (RAID SET) that don't show up in KDE. I have partitioned them, set up an ext3 FS and put them into fstab but they don't show up when I boot up and enter KDE. Can someone tell me how to mount them proeprly when the machine boots up?

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You need to be more specific. What kind of RAID set? Fake RAID provided by the motherboard, Linux MD RAID, etc..?
Also post your /etc/fstab.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice way to put it...its fake RAID done on the mother board

fstab

Code:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency).  It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail / tail freely.
#
# The root filesystem should have a pass number of either 0 or 1.
# All other filesystems should have a pass number of 0 or greater than 1.
#
# See the manpage fstab(5) for more information.
#

# <fs>         <mountpoint>   <type>      <opts>      <dump/pass>

# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/sdd1      /boot         ext2      noauto,noatime   1 2
/dev/sdd3      /             ext3      noatime          0 1
/dev/sdd2      none          swap      sw               0 0
/dev/sda1      /             ext3      noatime          0 1
/dev/sdb1      /             ext3      noatime          0 1
/dev/sdc1      /             ext3      noatime          0 1
/dev/cdrom     /mnt/cdrom    auto      noauto,ro        0 0
#/dev/fd0      /mnt/floppy   auto      noauto           0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
#  use almost no memory if not populated with files)
shm         /dev/shm   tmpfs      nodev,nosuid,noexec   0 0
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fake RAID is not directly supported by the Linux kernel as of Kernel 2.6, you'll have to use dmraid. If Linux is you only OS, you better get rid of fake RAID right away and use a native Linux solution.

To get fake RAID to work you'll have to do something along these lines:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/Onboard
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/NVRAID_with_dmraid

BTW, this is in no way related to KDE. ;)
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 1:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, I can get rid of the FAKE RAID and use dmraid. I figured it had to be done on the board as well. I will use a dual boot with windows but that os will reside on its own drive not used by gentoo.

Any comments on my fstab file? I added auto in hte fourth column to sda, sdb, and sdc and changed their number option to 2 in the sixth column but the drives still don't show up.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like the mounting issue is solved. I made a differnt mount point for the drive and it worked.
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