I'm happy to report that after doing this 2 steps, DMRAID is working, finally, perfectly fine with Karmic.
1- use HDAT2 utility to completly wipe out the HPA from both disks.
2- update kernel to 2.6.31-5
I'm confident that most DMRAID problems are due to that freaking HPA area on disks, and HDAT2 utility REALLY helped, not only does DMRAID now works with the new kernel, I am no longer experiencing the "Offline Member" message that drove me crazy since memorial times.
Thank you all for your effort!
PD: We need to spread this, most problems with RAID could be solved easily by eliminating the HPA area on HDDs.
The road to success:
I'm happy to report that after doing this 2 steps, DMRAID is working, finally, perfectly fine with Karmic.
1- use HDAT2 utility to completly wipe out the HPA from both disks.
2- update kernel to 2.6.31-5
I'm confident that most DMRAID problems are due to that freaking HPA area on disks, and HDAT2 utility REALLY helped, not only does DMRAID now works with the new kernel, I am no longer experiencing the "Offline Member" message that drove me crazy since memorial times.
Thank you all for your effort!
PD: We need to spread this, most problems with RAID could be solved easily by eliminating the HPA area on HDDs.