Grow / Change mdadm 2 Drive Raid Level-1 to Level-5
Scenario: I had two 1tb drives raided with mdadm level 1. I finally filled up my raid, and wanted to ultimatly add another 1tb to the raid. Therefore I wanted to change my raid to level 5, and add this third drive. As a result the raid should become 2tb in usable space. However I [...]
mdadm not working? makes /dev/md_0p1
Yes were are idiots, well it took me three times to make the software raid with mdadm before i realized what i was doing wrong. Once your done creating your raid, /dev/md0 is working correctly, edited fstab, and mounted it, it never crossed my mind not to reboot it right away. You first have to [...]
OEM Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 Not Working In Vista
I purchased two new OEM Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 1TB hard drives from TigerDirect. When i put those bad boys in, Vista installed them properly. However the drives didnt not show in “My Computer”. I checked for lose sata connection, updated the bios, uninstalled, then reinstalled…. no luck. To fix the problem just use fdisk in any [...]