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6. Appendix B. - SCSI reference implementation RAID5

4 disk SCSI RAID5

 df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0              11753770   2146076   9000678  19% /
/dev/md1                 15739       885     14042   6% /boot

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 fdisk -ul /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 4095 cylinders
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            32     32767     16368   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2         32768    292863    130048    5  Extended
/dev/sda3        292864   8386559   4046848   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda5         32800    260095    113648   82  Linux swap
/dev/sda6        260128    292863     16368   83  Linux native - test

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 fdisk -ul /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 4095 cylinders
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1            32     32767     16368   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2         32768    292863    130048    5  Extended
/dev/sdb3        292864   8386559   4046848   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb5         32800    260095    113648   82  Linux swap
/dev/sdb6        260128    292863     16368   83  Linux native - test

# ------------------------

# fdisk -ul /dev/sdc

Disk /dev/sdc: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 4095 cylinders
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc2            32    292863    146416    5  Extended
/dev/sdc3        292864   8386559   4046848   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdc5            64    260095    130016   83  Linux native - development
/dev/sdc6        260128    292863     16368   83  Linux native - test

# ------------------------

 fdisk -ul /dev/sdd

Disk /dev/sdd: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 4095 cylinders
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd2            32    292863    146416    5  Extended
/dev/sdd3        292864   8386559   4046848   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdd5            64    260095    130016   83  Linux native - development
/dev/sdd6        260128    292863     16368   83  Linux native - test

# --------------------------

# raidtab
#
raiddev /dev/md0
        raid-level      5
        nr-raid-disks   4
        persistent-superblock 1
        chunk-size      32

# Spare disks for hot reconstruction
        nr-spare-disks  0
        device          /dev/sda3
        raid-disk       0
        device          /dev/sdb3
        raid-disk       1
        device          /dev/sdc3
        raid-disk       2
        device          /dev/sdd3
        raid-disk       3

# boot partition
#
raiddev /dev/md1
        raid-level      1
        nr-raid-disks   2
        persistent-superblock 1
        chunk-size      32

# Spare disks for hot reconstruction
        nr-spare-disks  0
        device          /dev/sda1
        raid-disk       0
        device          /dev/sdb1
        raid-disk       1

# --------------------------

# cat lilo.conf.sda
# GLOBAL SECTION
# device containing /boot directory
disk=/dev/md0
# geometry
  bios=0x80
  sectors=32
  heads=64
  cylinders=4095
# dummy
  partition=/dev/md1
# start of device "disk" above
  start=32

boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b

image=/boot/bzImage
root=/dev/md0
label=LinuxRaid
read-only

# ------------------------
# cat lilo.conf.sdb
# GLOBAL SECTION
# device containing /boot directory
disk=/dev/md0
# geometry
  bios=0x80
  sectors=32
  heads=64
  cylinders=4095 
# dummy
  partition=/dev/md1
# start of device "disk" above
  start=32

boot=/dev/sdb
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b

image=/boot/bzImage
root=/dev/md0
label=LinuxRaid
read-only