If it's a hardware RAID, you just use the RAID firmware to create logical(?) drives out of the array. Once that's done, RH or distro-of-choice will load in the drivers and let you access each logical drive just like an IDE or SCSI drive - partition, format and away you go.
IIRC, there's a limit of 8 partitions per logical drive, not sure on the number of logical drives you can create. SW RAID may still require a non-RAID /boot since you need to load the SW RAID drivers before you can go anywhere with it. -Mark On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 18:46, Kurth Bemis wrote: > Hello list - Long time no post. > > I have picked up an server with 3 10,000 cheetah SCSI disks and an Adaptec > AAA-133u2 raid controller. > > I've been reading all the docs that I can find about RAID5 under > linux. I'm at a total loss for how to setup linux before i setup the > array. One HOW-TO said to setup a distro on a spare disk and boot off of > that then initialize the RAID array. That's great however there is no room > in the rackcase for an additional HD. > > I'd like to get this working with RAID5 although if I have to I guess that > I'll just use the drives as is with mount points. :-( > > Can anybody offer any pointers? > > ~kurth > > Kurth Bemis - Network/Systems Administrator, USAExpress.net/Ozone Computer > > People disagree with me. I just ignore them. > -- Linus Torvalds, regarding the use of C++ for the Linux kernel > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://kurth.hardcrypto.com > PGP key available - http://kurth.hardcrypto.com/pgp > > > ***************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
