I will try to setup my raid this weekend to see If I can tag along on this
discussion.

Brian

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Behalf Of Rob Hudson
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 12:12 AM
To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group
Subject: [Eug-lug] RAID


I'm helping a friend install Gentoo on a new Dell PowerEdge 2850.  It's
got an on-board RAID card and he was wanting RAID-1.  I get Gentoo to
boot from the LiveCD, step through the install docs until I get to the
partitioning stage.  At this point I'm in unfamiliar territory since
I've never worked with RAID before.  I can see the kernel module is
loaded and in use as megaraid_mm.  But from what I can see, [c]fdisk
isn't seeing any raid arrays.  I don't have any /dev/sd*.  I do have
/dev/rd/0 through 15 but cfdisk says it's 8MB.  I also see
/dev/mapper/control but nothing else in /dev/mapper.

Where do I go from here?

Assuming I can partition from fdisk, should I put the whole thing in
RAID-1?  I've seen places that say do swap on each drive, not mirrored.
  I'm not sure how you'd do that either.

Any guidance is appreciated.

Thanks,
Rob
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