"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote:
>
> I believe, that if you want to be able to boot from the mirrored set, you'll
> need to get a controller that mirrors the drives for you... such as the
> Adaptec adapters.
>
> Raid is supported AFTER the kernel loads.
>
> Though I may be wrong, with the more recent releases.
>
> -JMS
>
> |-----Original Message-----
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> |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James
> |Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 1:18 AM
> |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> |Subject: [expert] Quick how do I mirror a drive?
> |
> |
> |We've got a Poweredge 2400 and the RAID was setup with 4GB boot and the
> |other 104GB were divided in half and mirrored. We've outgrown the 50
> |user NT license, so we put mandrake on it. The only problem is that
> |linux is just treating it as two large partitions. How do I set up a
> |mirror. We are doing nightly back-ups, but if something major happens,
> |it's much easier to switch drives. Also, in NT there was a way of
> |setting the updating of the mirror. Is this possible in Linux as well?
> |
Was NT doing the mirroring for you? In that case, as Jose, said,
you must load the RAID modules post-boot.
"Enterprise" RAID controllers will do the mirroring for u and
present present the OS with a simplified view of things. I
don't know if "departmental" controllers also do this...
Ron
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