you also might encounter problems. the 206m hardware RAID controller is a "FAKE" raid controller. So you might also want to read up on that.
Federico Sevilla III wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:55:53AM -0700, Linuxpol wrote: > >> Im kind a new in RAID. i have IBM xSeries 206m with 4 SATA HDD. im >> planning to have RAID 5. i will be using its hardware base raid. my >> question is do i have to reinstall my system upon setting up raid 5? >> or is it transparent? >> > > Setting up RAID or changing RAID levels will wipe out your hard drives. > So you have to back up your system and data, configure RAID, then > restore your system and data. > > After you've set up hardware RAID, it's transparent to the OS. > >
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