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#5 Re: Software RAID5 and LVM with the Etch Installer Posted by Anonymous (64.13.xx.xx) on Fri 23 Mar 2007 at 06:19 The distro was Sarge but unsure of version (approx 4-6 months ago) 2.6.10 to 18?? I have not tried the above but have been weary of giving sw raid another try since the failure. Again I am new but from what I remember I was using mdadm to manage the array.(?) I was also able to remove then add the drives back into the array with no issues with mdadm. This was one cool feature that I liked about sw raid (along with the performance) No hardware issues when drives became corrupt, but not knowing anything about sw raid and having the system basically become un-usable was pretty shocking. I am also not sure if I was using GRUB or lilo (as some of my installs for some reason would only allow me to use lilo) but most installs where GRUB, so who knows, I say GRUB. The system is a Dell 2400 with 4 drives. I was using the perc 2 controller (which had also let me down when one drive failed (something Dell says has been a problem and they feel my pain) and did not allow me to rebuild the array, hence another reason for the sw raid switch) I am still exploring debian and have since installed etch onto the system with hw raid 0 and 5. I came across this article and hope it is something that will work out for me. I'm going to give sw raid another go and use the above guide. As the above really does not give any real idea to what I was using and possible issues with the sw raid, I'm gonna assume nature of sw raid, or possibly GRUB.

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