hi daniel
if the boot disks recognizes your controller...
consider yourself very lucky...
- you can make your root raid5 system if you like...
( good and bad )...
- tricky business to get root raid5 working properly...
if you only have 3 disks....1/3 of your disk space is NOT used
- just as good as using raid1 ( mirror )
try using 5 or 6 drives...1/5 in overhead for raid5
-- i like only data to be on raid5 partitions...
-- the system is already on cdrom and backedup..
-- and backup your raid5 (data)partiton to another system if you want to
protect your data....
data == /home and/or /var/log and/or /var/spool/mail...etc
-- to test that the system is doing it magic properly...
-
- disconnect power to one of the disks...( while system power is off )
- and see if everything still works upon reboot...
have fun
alvin
http://www.linux-consulting.com/Raid
http://www.linux-1U.net .. 1U Raid5 ..
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
> We are planning to by a server with 3 scsi drives and a dpt 2100s raid
> controller.
> I am quite confused about how I should set the thing up to get Debian
> running.
> Will Potato's boot disks recognise the raid controller?
> If I use the three drives in a Raid5 array can I boot off it?
> Should I have a forth drive to install and boot from it and use the raid
> array for var, home and such?
>
> Could somebody please light a torch over me?
>
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