[ale] Got wrong page error

[jdp at algoloma.com (JD)]

Danger Will Robinson!

The only time that I've experienced massive data loss was due to this
configuration. I lost not only the data on the bad drive, but all the data on
the 2 other drives in the stripe.  Files are written across all the drives in
the RAID set, tiny parts at a time.

* Have excellent backups OR
* Only use RAID0 storage for extremely temporary files.


On 08/29/2013 03:30 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
> I hope not but I'll check with a test install using RAID 1 instead.  And yes
> it's RAID 0 but Dell just calls it striping across drives in the BIOS.
> 
> On 8/28/2013 21:49, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> "striping across 2 drives" ?
>>
>> RAID 0?
>>
>> If so, you've got a bad drive.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:
>>
>>> I'm installing Debian 7.1 clean on a Dell Precision 690 with on-board RAID
>>> (Xeon and using the amd64 install image).  The RAID is configured for
>>> striping only across two disks.  Installation from the CD runs along with
>>> no apparent issues (right now it's not connected to the network so I'm only
>>> performing a bare-bones install to test).  However, when it boots I get a
>>> "wrong page" error a few times and then the whole thing stops and drops me
>>> into busybox.  The messages include not being able to find the UUID of the
>>> array, no /dev, and a couple others like that.
>>>
>>> I can't seem to find anything online that can explain the issue.  Ideas?
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