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KpocAlypse
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Joined: 13 Jun 2001
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Location: USA
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Wed Jun 13, 2001 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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The supervisor at our little educational instution has this nutty idea that he wants a IDE RAID (raid 1) setup on one of our servers, a red hat 7.1 web server. Now, me and the roomy think that its is impossiable, we both tried dealing with Linux and Promise ata/66/100 cards, and found it to be a real Pain in the arse.
Anyway, enough venting, is a setup consisting of a Promise fasttrack100 tx2 (running raid 1) and two gxp 60s possiable. Note, he want to boot from it...
Brains of the operation? I wouldn't exactly call this a "brains" operation..
Edited by - KpocAlypse on 06/13/2001 19:28:22 |
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Rover
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Joined: 18 Oct 2000
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Location: Toledo, OH
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Wed Jun 13, 2001 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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As far as I know it is not possible to boot from an IDE Raid setup, but you could always have a small single drive setup with the /boot partition and maybe the /swap partition on it and all the rest on the Raid. There is a thread around here that talks about it and has a link to some good information.
Rover
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[A.E.F]Grasy
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Joined: 10 Jun 2001
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Location: Austria
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Wed Jun 13, 2001 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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Mhh i think it could be possible... ...we made an software-raid, boot from it (ide) and did the misstake that we bought a "normal" promise ATA100 controller (no raid / fasttrack) - we put it in the pc and wonder that it run without configuring it. |
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KpocAlypse
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Joined: 13 Jun 2001
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Location: USA
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Thu Jun 14, 2001 5:49 am Post subject: |
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hum....It ain't looking good( well for him, i'm looking right). Anyway, it appears that it will work with the older kernel, but not the newer one, and form what i've read about promise, the new kernel Linux drivers are a low priority. Anyway, I think i'm going to push for a more "hardware" IDE RAID contoller like a 3ware or Adaptec, which i'm dang sure will work, if he still wants one.(for which i don't truely understand why, isn't that violating the prime rule of KISS; Keep it simple stupid.)
Or just do a software RAID setup using the MOBO's IDE.
Anyway, thanks for the input!
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SDGR406
Toilet Drinker
Joined: 30 Nov 2000
Posts: 366
Location: United Arab Emirates
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Thu Jun 14, 2001 7:07 am Post subject: |
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have we already done a "welcome to the forums" for kpocalypse?
well, in either case here's a big woof to ya
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KpocAlypse
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Thu Jun 14, 2001 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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Thank ya.. |
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