Hi folks,
This could make a pretty good howto if it has a happy ending.
I got a mylex dac960 card to drive an external rack with 5-9gb scsi
drives. RH5.2 (2.0.36) already is installed, on an ide hard drive.
Collected the driver and utilities from dandelion, made a new kernel and
swapped out lilo and fdisk. Put the new kernel into lilo.conf and it
loads just fine (though it had a little trouble seeing a 3com 3509 at
first ...?) Used the handy Dandelion script to create the full
complement of /dev/rd/*s.
Then I used mylex's bios tool to configure all five disks as a raid-5,
with no spare. It tells me everything's online and ready for use.
Home-free? Not really. At this point I should be able to load the os and
use fdisk to partition my new raid. Based on the docs I've been able to
find, I should be able to address the array at /dev/rd/c0d0. It doesn't
answer up there, or at c1, c2, etc.
Any tips or hints? Where did I go wrong? (please restrict comments to
the current topic).
Cheers,
Bill
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