[mythtv-users] FC5 and RAID

[Steven Adeff]

On 2/1/06, Michael Haan <michael.haan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, a little off-topic, but since this is my myth box and I'm going with FC5
> for myth support reasons.....
>
> I've just installed FC5 x86_64 on my box and I'm trying to set-up my file
> system.  The OS lives on /dev/hda along with swap and /boot.  I've got four
> four 250G SATA drives that previously lived in a RAID 5 config under FC4.
> Now, when I try to create a RAID 5 array on these devices under FC5, it
> tells me that each of these devices are busy.  I suspect this has to do with
> new options I saw for creating LVMs on install, but I don't want an LVM.
> Anyone know what's going on here or how to get around it?

from my understandig, FC5 should load up the four drives as a their
old RAID array if you place the same config like you had for FC4 in
FC5 for mdadm. I assume you were using software RAID?

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Steve