issue with setup-storage, squeeze, and SW Raid1

[Michael Tautschnig]

> > Hi Michael,
> > 
> > I can pack up logs from 3.3.5 and 40~48.  Do I send them here or to you personally?
> > 
> 
> I guess it's fine if you send them via private mail. Don't know about message
> size limits for this list, but most probably there's no point in bothering
> anyone else.
> 
> > I can give 3.4.5 a try, sure.  I only went to 4.0 as it was the only version that I was able to get SW raid working with.  I'll try 3.4.5 a try today and see what it does.
> > 
> 

[...]

I'm pretty confident that 3.4.5 will work for you - I think it's the lack of
cylinder alignment that is causing trouble for you. You might want to read this
Ubuntu problem report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/551965

Now there are multiple ways to fix this:

- Using any of the non-experimental builds will work for you.
- If you go for experimental builds, use the align-at option with a value that
  describes your cylinder size.
- setup-storage will have to take this into account more properly, but
  auto-detection will be almost impossible (it seems to be a BIOS issue), hence
  I'm currently favouring a align-at:cylinder variant of the "align-at" option.

Hope this helps,
Michael

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