raids

[Luke Davis]

Did you ever get this problem solved?

If not, having done it about ten times in the last three days, I can give 
you a step by step with the Debian installer, if you need it.

Regards,

Luke


On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Ned Granic wrote:

> Thanks folks for the help with hardware.
> 
> Then, I came to a halt again!
> Manually partitioning the disks:
> After matching the partitions from hda (master) and hdb (slave), and 
> clicking on "finish and write changes to disk", the following error pops up:
> 
> <box>
> partition disks:
> identical mount points for two file systems.
> Two file systems are assigned the same mount point (/):
> ide1 master, partition #1 (hda1) and ide slave, partition #1 (hdb1).
> please correct this by changing mount points.
> <end box>
> So on both drives there is the root partition with the ext3 fs, they are 
> both set to be formatted, the bootable flag is set on both, the mount points 
> are / (root dir), and sizes are identical.
> Finally, they are matched.
> 
> How to proceed?
> 
> Many thanks in advance!
> Ned
> 
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> From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:07 PM
> Subject: Re: raids
> 
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> > In fact, if you were to put 2 master drives on the same controller,
> > your machine wouldn't boot. As for where to put the second drive, I'd
> > recommend hdb on the first controller, rather then hdd, since you
> > don't want to mix cd-rom and hard drives if you can avoid it.
> >
> > As for your question how to do it, you need to set the jumper on the
> > back of the second drive to slave, connect the cable, make sure that
> > secondary slave is set to auto-detect in bios, and you should be all
> > set. You'll probably need sighted help with setting the jumper, if you
> > don't know which pins on the drive are for slave. You shouldn't need
> > to touch the primary hd. Hth.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:41:53PM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> >> <Hi,
> >> In order to set up rade, You do not need to have two master drives.
> >> I suggest you set up the second drive as a slave on hdb or hdd.
> >> HTH, Willem
> >>
> >>
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