Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question -- software RAID instead?

2004-12-25 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Jonathan Reeder -- Since the SATA RAID controller in the Dell PE SC420 isn't supported yet, is there anything I can do with atacontrol to run my two drives as a software RAID instead of relying on the controller? I've never used SATA before, so any advice anyone can

Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question

2004-12-21 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Jonathan Reeder -- Hmm, well since I'm stuck with the hardware that I've been given, does that mean that I need to pursue a different OS? I'd love to run FreeBSD on this server, but I can't change any of its hardware so do I need to look at Linux? I am not a

RE: Dell CERC SATA 2S question -- software RAID instead?

2004-12-21 Thread Jonathan Reeder
Since the SATA RAID controller in the Dell PE SC420 isn't supported yet, is there anything I can do with atacontrol to run my two drives as a software RAID instead of relying on the controller? I've never used SATA before, so any advice anyone can offer is greatly appreciated.

Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question -- software RAID instead?

2004-12-21 Thread Roger. O. Svenning
Jonathan Reeder wrote: Since the SATA RAID controller in the Dell PE SC420 isn't supported yet, is there anything I can do with atacontrol to run my two drives as a software RAID instead of relying on the controller? I've never used SATA before, so any advice anyone can offer is greatly

Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question -- software RAID instead?

2004-12-21 Thread Peter Giessel
On Tuesday, December 21, 2004, at 07:15AM, Roger. O. Svenning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Reeder wrote: Since the SATA RAID controller in the Dell PE SC420 isn't supported yet, is there anything I can do with atacontrol to run my two drives as a software RAID instead of relying on the

Dell CERC SATA 2S question

2004-12-20 Thread Jonathan Reeder
I just got a Dell PowerEdge SC420 (or something like that) with the CERC SATA 2S RAID. When the server boots, the Adaptec utility tells me that I have one array configured, a RAID 1 with 2 drives. However, when I launch the 5.3 installer and go to Allocate Disk Space options, it sees two drives

Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question

2004-12-20 Thread Roger. O. Svenning
Jonathan Reeder wrote: I just got a Dell PowerEdge SC420 (or something like that) with the CERC SATA 2S RAID. When the server boots, the Adaptec utility tells me that I have one array configured, a RAID 1 with 2 drives. However, when I launch the 5.3 installer and go to Allocate Disk Space

Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question

2004-12-20 Thread Jonathan Reeder
Hmm, well since I'm stuck with the hardware that I've been given, does that mean that I need to pursue a different OS? I'd love to run FreeBSD on this server, but I can't change any of its hardware so do I need to look at Linux? On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 16:29, Roger. O. Svenning wrote: Jonathan