Topic: Software RAID 1 and SME v5.0

[Bob Wallman]

I have tried to set up an SME Server v5.0 using 2 Fujitsu 20GB ATA/100 IDE drives using software RAID 1.  The motherboard suports ATA/100 and I decided to install 1 of the drives on the primary IDE channel and the other drive on the secondary IDE channnel.

When I did the install I selected the RAID 1 option.  Once it started to copy the install files, it failed part way though with a signal 11 error (can't remember the exact words), part of the screen turned red with what looked like a memory dump (a bunch of hex code).  Repeated the proceedure and the same thing happened.  Yet the install works fine when I only use 1 of the drives.  Should the 2 hard drives be installed on the same IDE channel instead of separate channels?

Both drives are new and I have set up a second SME Server with the 2nd of the two drives I mentioned above.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

[Boris]

1. Is master/slave configured between HD's and CDROM?
    It doesn't like sometimes cable-select options.
    Typically, I install HDrives as masters on both channels and CDROM as a slave on secondary channel.

2. If CDROM doesn’t support DMA, try to type “accept ide=nodma” during install.

One of two might help.

[Bob Wallman]

Yes, both hard drives are set up as masters on each channel and the CD-ROM does support DMA and in the slave on the secondary channel.  Thanks for the quick response.

[Chris O'Donovan]

I had a similar problem with an IDE raid installation. It turned out that one of the drives was bad.  It was quite frustrating trying to diagnose this problem.

I'd suggest checking that both of the drives are good before looking for more complicated problems.

Regards.

Chris