On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 10:18 +0100, Pete French wrote: > > OK, I found out that my array has been already set up as RAID 5, which > > is what I'm looking for. Do you think it is time now to configure the > > volumes or is there something else needs to be done before that? > > If the array has been set up as RAID 5 then just go ahead and install > FreeBSD on it. I run a lot of machines like this, including a couple of > DL380's, and my home machine which has a COmpaq 5304 card plugged into > an MSI amd64 motherboard quite happily. > OK great :) Thanks a lot for all those helped me.
> I usually try and istall a small Windows2000 partition on the machine as well > though, so that I can run the Compaq ACU code to manage the array. It can be > done from the BIOS, but there are a lot more features in the actual > application. > Might consider it for another server ;), thanks... > -pcf. -- Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at http://www.getfirefox.com
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