So I'm giving up on mdadm/RAID1/WD10EARS Green Drive experiment for the next day or two. I've tried 4 times in the last two days to see if I can get this machine to boot using RAID. I keep running into crashes that look like the one below. I will try a non-RAID install and see if the hardware is stable and then come back to this later if appropriate. I was running a March, 2010 Gentoo install CD when this happened. One terminal doing bash completion of all things was hung with 1 CPU stuck in a ...

Hi, I brought up new hardware yesterday for my first RAID install. I followed this Gentoo page describing a software RAID1/LVM install: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml Note that I followed this page verbatim, even if it wasn't what I wanted, with exceptions: a) My RAID1 is 3 drives instead of 2 b) I'm AMD64 Gentoo based. c) I used grub-static I did this install mostly just to get a first-hand feel for how to do a RAID install and to try out ...

well, this is somehow following. Since a bootmananger does not fit, why is this space reserved at all... I might understand the bootchain case, anyhow. Thanks, bye, -- piergiorgio --

Just for those who like to read: ERC is a feature stated in the ATA-specifications, that's why the "quick hack" for smartctl was so easy. But in the specs it is also noted, that the change a SCT-ERC-Command does will not survive a power cycle. So y'all will probably need some udev-triggered daemon, which runs upon connecting a disk, checking if this disk is conforming to the ata-spec, then finding out if it's part of a raid array. If all answers yield "yes", it should call SCT-ERC with a ...

Some more info: I did try this command with the following result: mdadm --build -n 4 -l 5 -e1.2 --assume-clean /dev/md127 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb5 /dev/sdc5 /dev/sdd5 mdadm: Raid level 5 not permitted with --build. Should I try this? Thanks--