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Date:      Wed, 27 May 1998 00:57:32 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        shimon@simon-shapiro.org
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Weird behaviour in BootEasy
Message-ID:  <19980527005732.29188@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980526195506.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>; from Simon Shapiro on Tue, May 26, 1998 at 07:55:06PM -0400
References:  <19980526193419.65069@follo.net> <XFMail.980526195506.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>

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On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 07:55:06PM -0400, Simon Shapiro wrote:
> On 26-May-98 Eivind Eklund wrote:
> > 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 never seen it on another controller.  I can do more tests, but I
think it is likely it is specific.

> > 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.

It's a RAID-1, so it is/should be just copying.

Eivind.

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