[ale] auto-recognized RAID partitions

[dcorbin at machturtle.com (David Corbin)]

On Monday 23 October 2006 08:27, Danny Cox wrote:
> David,
>
> On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 13:28 -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> > I have a linux raid-1 drive.  But, it is not "auto-recognized" by the
> > kernel. I have to run a utility after booting.   Others have suggested
> > that I can just use FDisk to change the partition types to FD, and
> > presto, everything will work without the utility, and there's no real
> > risk of data loss.
> >
> > I'd like further confirmation of this.
>
> 	Confirmed!  The kernel will NOT recognize software RAID partitions
> unless they're marked 0xFD using fdisk (of sfdisk, or ....).
>
> 	No data loss will occur, unless some unrelated hardware happens to
> invoke Murphy at the same time ;-).

I only have one raid drive, but how does it know which partitions go to which 
raid drive?

David