Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:53:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve Frampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello!
I've just installed a Mylex DAC960 controller driving 4 SCSI 9 Gb
drives into an Red Hat 5.2 Intel-based Linux (2.0.36) server.
After I built a custom kernel with the DAC960 2.0.0 beta 4 driver
(as found on the Dandelion Digital page), I was able to see my RAID
array show up as /dev/rd/c0d0.
I used fdisk (both the original as well as the staticly-linked version
as provided in the DAC960 utilities tarball) to set up partitions on
the array as follows:
Disk /dev/rd/c0d0: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3330 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/rd/c0d0p1 1 765 6144831 83 Linux native
/dev/rd/c0d0p2 766 3330 20603362+ 5 Extended
/dev/rd/c0d0p5 766 1913 9221278+ 83 Linux native
/dev/rd/c0d0p6 1914 3262 10835811 83 Linux native
/dev/rd/c0d0p7 3263 3279 136521 82 Linux swap
/dev/rd/c0d0p8 3280 3296 136521 82 Linux swap
/dev/rd/c0d0p9 3297 3313 136521 82 Linux swap
/dev/rd/c0d0p10 3314 3330 136521 82 Linux swap
The DAC960 driver only supports 7 partitions per logical drive (see
README.DAC960). FDISK unfortunately does not enforce limitations on the number
of partitions per disk. If you need more partitions, please configure your
array as multiple logical drives, and then each logical drive vcan be
partitioned further.
Leonard
