3ware RAID controller works great with Mandrake. It is
detected & configured automatically.
The RedHat userland utilities are fine also.
One thing you might consider though, is that if your
single, 90 GB partition gets corrupted, you lose
everything. If you split it into smaller (but still
huge!) partitions, you can manage your risk a little
better.
And maybe I'm old fashioned, but I always make a smal
(20 MB) partition at the beginning of the disk for /boot.
Eric
> Todd Flinders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I want to purchase two 60 gig IBM 60GXP ATA/100 hard
> > drives and a 3ware RAID controller. I will give 30
> > gigs to Windows and 90 gigs to Linux.
> >
> > Is that going to be a problem?
>
> Not likely, unless windows has a problem with 30 Gig ;-) / 2
>
> I bought a nice 40 gig drive a while back (although it
> is NOT the boot disk), made one big partition, and its
> happy:
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6 2190632 819352 1260000 39% /
> /dev/hda1 19487 3675 14806 20% /boot
> /dev/hdb2 39365712 3767460 33598564 10% /news
>
> The only downside is trying to figure out where the blasted
> COMMAS go! :-)
>
> > Will there be any necessary partitioning or parameters to allow Linux to
> > see the 90 gigs?
>
> As I recall, I said 'mke2fs /dev/hdb2', and waited.
>
> You MIGHT want to allow more files than normal (more inodes),
> since you'll probably get a lot of files there (see man page
> for mke2fs)
>
> > Do I need to do anything special to install the 3ware controller card?
>
> No clue. (Just call me clue challenged, its ok ;-)
>
> > I believe the driver for this card is built into the kernel.
> >
> > I will be using Linux Mandrake 8.0 PowerPack.
> >
> > Thanks so much for the help. I'd love to avoid a
> > headache ahead of time.
>
> If you want to be paranoid, reserve a 40 meg partition
> on the first 1024 cylinders (well, you can easily get
> by with 10 meg or less, but why be stingy, what with
> 60 gig avail per drive? ;-)
>
> As someone else has said, this may be no longer
> required, but if you want to be paranoid then do it
> that way. (Also, make it ext2, I think - again this
> is not strictly required, but if you want something
> other than ext2 for everything else this may make
> life easier - maybe not ;-)
>
> Also see the thread here about dual-booting. If
> its a new install, I like to install windows first
> (well, for small values of 'like to install' ;-),
> and then linux, since getting linux to dual-boot
> is ALWAYS easier than trying to add windblows to
> an already-configured system....
>
> rc
>
>
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