Dear all,
FALSE HOPES !!!
In my previous email I said that I can access both IBM drives on the Fasttrack RAID
controller, however this is not true. On installation, I was able to format and select
a mount point for the first drive but not for the second drive. Then using Harddrake I
was able to format and set the mountpoint for the second drive on the array after the
installation. This let me to thinking that now I was able to access both of them.
However, today on reboot, I could not re-mount the second drive. Although, Harddrake
shows it to be formatted as Linux Native, I am not allowed to set a new mount point.
Even deleting the partition and trying to set a new mount point does not work.
Sorry for raising your hopes on the Fasttrack RAID controller. I suppose, I will have
a look at the 3ware's version of RAID controllers or just use Linux Software RAID.
Anyway, thanks for your help.
Norman
civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/21/01 12:24am
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
