To All,
I have given up on the idea of having IDE RAID the costs are just too
high to have a proper hardware RAID (like Adaptec cards etc).
I have setup a mandrake system, as it supports RAID as an install
option, which is nice!
My BIOS unfortunately does not let me boot off the second drive (which
is bad), which means should the first drive in the array fail I would
be, well, up the paddle without a creek!
What I intend to do is use a boot disk to boot the system into its RAID
state, so it doesn't matter which drive is down, so my boot order will
go Prim IDE, Floppy, CD.
There are two things I could do with help with!
1. Why can't I boot off the secondary IDE? It comes up with L 01 01 01
01 01 01 01 etc 01DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.
I am sure this is a BIOS problem.
2. How \ What do I need to create the boot disk simply to kick off the
boot process off any drive?
My RAID config works like this:
Md0 mounted on /boot is a boot array
MD1 mounted on / is the rest.
Any help would be great, TIA.
Michael