RAID autodetect?

[hewitt_tech]

It seems like software RAID on Linux could easily result in a chicken/egg 
situation. For example if your system were completely setup (root and all) 
on your RAID array and you had a failure that necessitated booting from a 
rescure disk, you might have quite a difficult time getting the 
configuration correct so that you could recover your system. I thought that 
hardware RAID arrays (usually SCSI) didn't have this problem since the 
platform software only sees a disk or disks and not the underlying RAID 
hardware. I'm probably wrong about that...

-Alex

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Drew Van Zandt" <drew.vanzandt at gmail.com>
To: "GNHLUG" <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: RAID autodetect?


> Well, I feel like an idiot... I figured it out.  I had the RAID
> statically built in to the kernel, but my IDE chipset drivers were
> modular.... so when the autodetect was trying, it didn't know there
> were any hard disks yet.
>
> Live, learn.
>
> --Drew Van Zandt
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