Has anyone used RAID on a fresh woody install recently and would be willing to share their thoughts on the process?
I just bought the Gigabyte GA-7VRXP motherboard (VIA KT333 chipset with Promise PDC20276 RAID controller) naively thinking I could set up RAID0 on the motherboard (on two IDE drives) and that I could simply make a fresh woody install on One Big Disk. What was I thinking? According to RAID Solutions for Linux [1], I'll need the drivers for this controller. Do I? The ATA RAID HOWTO [2] speaks about an ft controller that I can obtain, but can I use that with a fresh Debian install? In the current 2.4.18 kernel, are the following seemingly related modules or settings useful? pdcraid.o, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX Otherwise, it seems that using RAID is a nightmare [3] and is more trouble than it's worth. 1. http://linas.org/linux/raid.html 2. http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/ATA-RAID-HOWTO 3. http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]