[ILUG] Ubuntu Dapper and Promise fasttrack lite 100

[Conor Wynne]

> Stephen Shirley wrote:
> 
> > Under the 'any other suggestions' bit, i have to say: use linux s/w 
> > raid unless you've got a good reason not to. Fakeraid can 
> sometimes be 
> > useful if you need dual-boot access to your array, but as this is 
> > destined to be a server that shouldn't be an issue.

Fakeraid sucks-ass.com, you are far better off using MD, coz it just
works. It has been stable as a judge (Saddaam Hussein's judges excluded)
for years. Whereas fakeraid is also software RAID, only is crap due to
lack of use (comparatively speaking) - never mind tainting the kernel
(heads role for less around here you know). 

> > Steve
> 
> after playing with dm-mod and dm-mirror and dmraid and 
> getting an error 
> 22 from fdisk or rather ioctl on re-reading partition table I 

You forgot to do :
# partprobe /dev/xxxx

That would have resolved it. 

> have now 
> done exactly that ;)

Good choice. 

> cheers
> 
> Bernhard

Regards
Conor.