Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 19:55:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird behaviour in BootEasy Message-ID: <XFMail.980526195506.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <19980526193419.65069@follo.net>
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On 26-May-98 Eivind Eklund wrote:
> Not very practical; it's presently housing my homedir, my bootdrive,
> and most of my sources. :-(
Yuck. Is the array RAID-0 or RAID-1? I forget.
> The interesting point here is that I _haven't_ re-initialized the
> array - I still have the original DOS slice I got from you. I've
> concatenated the two slices used to hold the 15 or so BSD paritions to
> a single slice with a boot partition, a swap partition, and a lagre
> 'e' partition for sources + homedir.
This is probably where the error is. I found out that moving partitions
like that causes these symptoms. I am not so sure how DPT-specific this is.
> I've run dptmgr.com (or something like that) from DOS a couple of
> times and re-built one disk, but I've not done anything that should
> have changed the basic array.
Re-building a RAID-1 array simply copies one disk to the other.
I do not know what you mean by re-building in the context of RAID-0.
Simon
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Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG
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