Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> I wasn't aware that was even possible. I was under the impression that
> RAID could only be accomplished using SCSI devices.
>
> Mark
>
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Michael Lapa wrote:
>
> > Has anyone gotten an IDE RAID system up and running in Mandrake linux? If
> > so, what card and software did you use.
> >
> > Michael Lapa
> > Technical Support
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> > 450.668.4415 ext. 238
> >
> >
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, it can be ide as
well as scsi. Mirroring is one type of raid setup where you write the
same information to two or more disks at the same time, that way if one
disk fails, you haven't lost important data. Another type is striping
with parity; you have three or more disks and you write the information
twice. If one disk fails, you just swap it with a good disk and keep
going.
As far as getting it working under Linux, I haven't yet tried. I do
have simple striping setup on one of my computers under Windows 2000 and
when I installed Linux to that computer, it seemed to recognize that it
was a raid setup however there were other problems so I aborted and
haven't gone back yet. In the installer for Mandrake 7.1, there is an
option on the 'custom' install when you choose which filesystem you want
to use, that allows for raid - I would imagine that it's as simple as
picking the disks to use and letting the installer do the rest.
Hope that helps, Mike
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