[NCLUG] Help needed - Adaptec 3210s raid controller/RAID

[Neil Doane]

You want /dev/sda1 perhaps?


Neil


* jbass at dmsd.com (jbass at dmsd.com), on [05-14-03 17:41], wrote:
> 	Please help me with the following steps, as something is
> 	not working:
> 	1. fdisk /dev/sda to create partition and write it.  (I
> 	would prefer one large container)
> 
> 	2. mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda
> 
> 
> 	This *seems* to work ok, but subsequent mount attempts
> 	fail, claiming superblock corruption.  Somewhere I am not
> 	doing something right. 
> 
> 	Thanks - Erich
> 
> At minimim, if you do not want to partition the drive array, then
> zero the first few sectors of it (or whole array which I prefer
> anyway) and then do your mkfs:
> 
> 	# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024k
> 	# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda
> 
> any partition tables are going to confuse other things into looking
> for signatures where the partitions would be and often do some auto
> magical configuration you would prefer not happen. As long as the raid
> controller driver returns the right block count for the array, every
> thing should then just work.
> 
> Problems past that are a controller/driver/drive problem.
> 
> John
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