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The Friday 2007-06-22 at 03:21 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote:
> <thread history: The ultimate goal here is to use the 'fake-raid'
> controller built-in to the ASUS motherboard with the 4 SATA drives that
> board can natively control *without* having to use a 5th IDE or external
> drive just to boot the system>
The ultimate goal should be to have the best raid 5 possible with the
hardware you have ;-p
...
> > It is probably not in your initrd. BTW, a quick search shows it is
> > called raid456.
> Thank you all....this initiates another hunt but at least there is a
> glow at the end of the tunnel :) Gosh...I hope that isn't a train!!!!!
Heh, but you can not read the initrd on a raid 5 "before" booting, so the
goal of not using an extra drive is fooled :-p
However, on a software raid you can, because /boot is left out of the
raid.
> PS... I'm 64 years old....I hope I can actually get this solved before
> time runs out. I don't want my epitaph to read "Windoze won!" :)
:-)
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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