I took a break in all php coding and looked at 3wares site. The escalade serie doesn't seem to support the feature you want... As must of the time my memory is wrong ;) Things that happen more than 3seconds ago are very blur to me... Anyway, I found another card that may be able to do what you're searching for. It kind of depends on what they mean in the product description. Adaptecs 2400A support Online Capacity Expansion, it's a IDE raid card that support 4 discs. Now the tricky part is to understand what they mean. That you can extend and raid 5 array from 3 discs to 4 discs is pretty obvious, but is it possible to change from one array to another without losing data, that's the question :/ Send adaptec an email or search the web for some answer...
/Oscar
Oscar N aka 'Dreadful' wrote:
Hmm, forgot to answer your question :P
It depends very much on the controller card you're going to use. For an example, scsi raid cards often has the ability to change arrays(sometimes even on the fly). There you can create an array with 1 disc and then later change it to raid 0,1,5 or whatever you want when you add discs. But there is no way to create a raid 5 array with only 1 disc...
Now, I'm trying to think about a ide raid card that can change arrays afterword and the only one who 'might' be able to do that is 3ware's escalade cards... But I'm not sure about this, it's only something I have a small memory about... Check out there webpage and let me know :)
/Oscar
Oscar N aka 'Dreadful' wrote:
raid 0 or 1 requires at least 2 discs, and raid 5 requires at least 3 discs... Are you thinking about software raid or hardware raid by the way?
hondaman wrote:
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] I think im gonna set up an array, i have too much data to lose. I guess my 2 options are 0+1 or 5. My questions are:
Has anyone had experience setting up a raid 5 in RH 8? What cards did you use? Can I build an initial raid 5 array on one drive? The reason i ask i becuase my strategy, if it would work, is to buy a new drive, set up the array on it, xfer stuff over, then add my existing, now empty drive, to the array, and continue this process till ive added all my drives to the array.
My biggest concern is drivers. After looking at a couple cards capable of doing raid 5, it seems that there arent drivers for RH 8, only 7.X
hondaman - admin www.hardgaming.com --
_______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
_______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
_______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
_______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
