Slow Installation with Raid Implementation

[roi]

Support,
I am setting up a test server with raid1 settings. Elastis 2.4 stable version.
It is taking hours to finish the installation. What could be causing it? I am using 8gb memory Intel zeon 2.4ghz 8 cores.
2x Hdd 160gb.
All sata.
tried on two different server and two different cds.

The same! Please help.

Also tried without raid, formatting and installation is still slow.

 

[jgutierrez]

Not sure what may be going wrong... perhaps a driver issue?

What about installing it into a virtual machine?

 

[roi]

Found the issue! Drivers for supermicro on 64bit 2.4 iso. I used my 2.3 version and everything installed fine. One more question;

[root@testraid ~]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md2 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
102208 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md0 : active raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0]
4095936 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0]
156637056 blocks [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>
; according to the manual this should confirm that the RAID is working!
BUT when I ran
[root@testraid ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 319120 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 203 102280+ fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2 204 310991 156637152 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda3 310992 319118 4096008 fd Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 620181 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 203 102280+ fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2 204 612053 308372400 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb3 612054 620180 4096008 fd Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/md1: 160.3 GB, 160396345344 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 39159264 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/md0: 4194 MB, 4194238464 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 1023984 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/md2: 104 MB, 104660992 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 25552 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/md2 doesn't contain a valid partition table
" it is still showing doesn't contain partition" why?
I tried removing the first HDD and the second drive is working! What seems to be the issue?

Thank you

 

[roi]

Is there a work around for driver issue?

 

[jgutierrez]

During installation, you can load up another drivre source, there you will need to load your RAID controller driver.

 

[roi]

I believe its not the raid driver, because I tried the normal installation, one hdd only but still slow. What driver should i load and how to do that?

 

[jgutierrez]

My guess is that it is the raid drivers, but if you say it is not, I can't imagine right now, which will be the one.

If you have tried installing another 2.X version and it works fine, install it and then update it.