Using the Promise Fastrak 100 TX2 (not the Ultra) card, you put the two hard drives on seperate ports and if one dies, it does not take down the server or the array. I know, I tried<GRIN>.
After I had the array up and running, (I do NOT recommend doing this! it is a dangerous procedure!) I reached in and pulled the power connector off one of the hard drives and the server just kept on running. It logged the error in messages of course. And I rebooted the server also. The controller card complained, but allowed the machine to be rebooted. I don't remember the exact price of this controller, but it's under $100. Lyle -----Original Message----- From: Jan Carlson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 9:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie Question Disc Mirroring On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 05:55:48AM -0500, Bryan wrote: > Is there a way to mirror a hard drive in Linux. And if so can the system > be set to boot to the good hard drive in case of a master failure. Yes, that's called raid 1. It's simple to install using raid 1 on a machine with 2 identical hard disks. Make the /boot partition first. During installation, it gives you all the choices to make it easy. If a hard disk fails, you may have to disconnect the bad hard disk and reboot. A dead disk can sometimes disable the disk controler. -- Jan Carlson janc at kubwa dot com _______________________________________________ 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
