On Wednesday 20 June 2001 11:45, Norman Teferle wrote:
> I have posted a message with respect to my Mandrake 8.0 box
> with a Promise FastTrack Ultra ATA-100 RAID 0 - 1 controller a
> couple of days ago with no response. Scrolling throught the
> mailing list archive, I can see that this topic has come up
> recently numerous times.
>
> Anyway, following the recommendations of the www.promise.com
> linux support for RH6.2/7.0 and some recent mailings (ie
> Richard Kleeman - Fix for Mandrake8.0 install on Promise IDE
> controller from Friday June 15, 2001) I have managed to
> install Mandrake 8.0 and can access my 3 harddrives hda, hde
> and hdg, with hde and hdg being two IBM DTLA 307075 drives.
> W2k and M8.0 live on hda, and the idea was to have RAID 1
> configuration using both IBM disks.
>
> From some mails (Civileme - Common Errors - 28 May, 2001 and
> Civileme - Mandrake 8.0, Promise Fasttrack 66/100, Lockups,
> only sees one channel - 18 May, 2001) I also learned that it
> is possible to gimmick a RAID1 configuration by only
> installing one drive and using it in mirroring mode, using the
> controller to copy to the second drive. Could someone please
> tell me how to do this?
Could you please tell ME how you got that thing working? We'll
post it and give you credit.
;-)
Well if you have identical drives, you ask the controller to
make a copy to the second drive in RAID1 configuration. But if
you have THREE drives on that controller, then leave it is
straight IDE mode and RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID4 and RAID5 using any
pieces you choose of those three drives all belong to you
through linux software raid, which is just as efficient as the
controller's RAID 1 and far less restrictive.
As with most Linux facilities, linuxdoc.org has a giant HOWTO on
this which, for once is not especially difficult to read. You
will also find Software RAID partitons available as a partition
type at install time.
Civileme
Civileme
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks
>
> Norman
