Puppy 4.3.1 and RAID

leachim1 · 04-19-2010, 01:53 PM

Newbie here

I boot from a Puppy 4.3.1 CD to move some files around on a XP system with RAID

I have learnt from a forum that mdadm is needed

Not a clue how to implement this with a Puppy boot cd so that it will read RAID disks

Please help

Thanks

hda7 · 04-20-2010, 07:57 AM

Have you installed mdadm yet? If not, it is available at Kernel.org. Check the man pages; I think that there is an option that will look at a disk and try to reconstruct the raid. I have used mdadm to create a raid on puppy, but I have never tried to read one written by something else.

leachim1 · 04-20-2010, 08:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hda7

Have you installed mdadm yet? If not, it is available at Kernel.org. Check the man pages; I think that there is an option that will look at a disk and try to reconstruct the raid. I have used mdadm to create a raid on puppy, but I have never tried to read one written by something else.

Thanks

I have to be careful not to destroy the disk by unwittingly formatting etc

I downloaded 2.6.9 a few days ago, but have no clue on how to get it to execute in Puppy

hda7 · 04-21-2010, 11:29 AM

I created a folder "md" in /dev to hold device files for my assembled RAIDs. A generic assemble command would be something like:

Code:

mdadm -A /dev/md/0 /device/1 /device/2 ...