Ubuntu
dmraid package

  1. Bug #401713
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 401713

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EagleDM (eagle-maximopc) wrote :

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.