[ale] Got wrong page error

[Alex Carver]

Having backups was the intent.  This array is supposed to hold the OS. 
Regular data is going on three external arrays later.  Right now I'm 
just trying to solve the problem I'm having with installing the OS at all.

On 8/29/2013 01:02, JD wrote:
> 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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