On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:40:27AM -0700, Linuxpol wrote: > Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> After you've set up hardware RAID, it's transparent to the OS. > > i have another server with 2 hard drives and set it up as raid 1. ive > installed debian etch and expecting to see only 1 hard drive because > of raid 1 but how come i can still see 2 hard drives when i execute > "fdisk -l"
Hardware RAID is transparent to the OS. Software RAID is implemented by the OS, so it's not transparent. You will still see all your hard drives (in dmesg, or by using fdisk and company), but you should notice that you're now mounting the software RAID devices, /dev/md*. Cheers! -- Federico Sevilla III F S 3 Consulting Inc. http://www.fs3.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
