I'll check with Dell and our Systems team as well.
Yeah, I hear ya....don't really want to go the flashly light beneath the
"complete lack of wiring management disgrace thing" if I don't have to!!
Thanks,
Cleve
>
> From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2003/02/14 Fri PM 12:20:45 EST
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Redhat 7.1 and RAID
>
> Good. I was wondering if you were going to do RAID 5 with software. Anyway,
> -ray is right that Advanced Server comes with some nice features. I used it
> in a web cluster and it pretty much comes ready to roll. If you are doing
> hardware RAID then setup should be more than simple. My concern though with
> a lot of Linux hardware RAID support is determing if a drive dies or the
> board notices some odd errors. Does your RAID vendor support Linux with
> some kind of poll/notification service that a member of the RAID set is
> experiencing problems? I'd check on that. Otherwise, you may have to rely
> on the flashing light behind the computer, underneath the wires...
>
> At 11:05 AM 2/14/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> >I'm using an adaptec ATA2400a IDE raid 5 controller with linux 6.2...
> >(don't know if you're partial to scsi drives or not, IDE is just a cheaper
> >replacement)
> >Other than it being a little particular about the bios on the motherboard,
> >it went in sweet and simple....
> >
> >None the less, adaptec is the controller of choice...
> >and they support linux....
> >
> >Nat
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[email protected]>
> >Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 10:19 AM
> >Subject: [brlug-general] Redhat 7.1 and RAID
> >
> >
> > > Guys,
> > > I have the opportunity to add 3 Linux servers to the corporate production
> >environment. I am excited about this but need someone to point me in the
> >right direction about one of the configuration details.
> > > All three will use RedHat 7.1, and I believe we will use Advanced Server.
> > > Server #1 will have 2 Internal SCSI drives in a RAID 1 configuration.
> > > Server #2 will have 3 Internal SCSI drives in a RAID 5 configuration.
> > > Server #3 will have 2 Internal SCSI drives and 6 External SCSI drives
> >configured into 4 mirrored pairs - RAID 1
> > > This last server will use RedHat 7.1 (2.4.18-17-smp)
> > >
> > > I need someone to point me to a place where I can get info for setting up
> >the RAID configuration for these 3 servers.
> > >
> > > Anyone....anyone??
> > > Thanks,
> > > Cleve
> > >
> > >
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