Thank you Jason. Tom
At 09:33 AM 10/25/2001 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "TK" == Thomas Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >TK> Actually, I am looking for both Hardware and Software RAID howtos. > >There wouldn't be much to a hardware RAID howto: > >1) Buy a supported RAID controller. > >2) Connect it according to manufacturers instructions. > >3) Configure it according to manufacturers instructions. These cards > are usually configured through BIOS setup screens at boot time; > Linux is not involved. (Hence no Linux content in the HOWTO.) > >4) Install OS. > >The OS just sees some number of disks depending on how you configured >the card. For instance, I have a 3ware 7810 card (which, sadly, you >can no longer buy) with eight 100GB Western Digital IDE disks on it >configured in one big RAID5 array. Linux sees a single (big) disk, >/dev/sda: > >Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 85128 cylinders >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >/dev/sda1 * 1 17 136521 83 Linux >/dev/sda2 18 85128 683654107+ 5 Extended >/dev/sda5 18 400 3076416 83 Linux >/dev/sda6 401 661 2096451 82 Linux swap >/dev/sda7 662 792 1052226 83 Linux >/dev/sda8 793 859 538146 83 Linux >/dev/sda9 860 926 538146 83 Linux >/dev/sda10 927 85128 676352533+ 8e Linux LVM > >You partition and run as usual. > > - J< > > > >_______________________________________________ >Seawolf-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
