better to ask than to dive in blindly
And I definitely appreciate the responses.
raid will NOT solve your backup probelms..
No, of course not. One thing at a time, though. Once the system is back up
and running and restored from the 5-week old backup, then I'll quickly turn
my attention to
but if oyu use 200GB raid disks... you will NOT be able to boot from
it .. bios just too old
I hadn't thought about that.
So, what if I decide to go out and get a shiny new motherboard. Unless
things have changed since the last time I bought a motherboard, most of them
have two IDE channels
hi ya jason
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Jason Bleazard wrote:
but if oyu use 200GB raid disks... you will NOT be able to boot from
it .. bios just too old
I hadn't thought about that.
So, what if I decide to go out and get a shiny new motherboard. Unless
things have changed since the last
From: Steven Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you lose the first disk the machine's bios wont pick the second disk,
so the machine will not be bootable anyway.
That's why I said re-plug the cable in the original post :-). It is
certainly something to keep in mind, that's why I want to make
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Jason Bleazard wrote:
From: Steven Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you lose the first disk the machine's bios wont pick the second disk,
so the machine will not be bootable anyway.
That's why I said re-plug the cable in the original post :-).
you have your
Sorry for asking this when I know there's a lot of documentation out there
already, but I'm getting in to information overload and I'd appreciate any
suggestions or opinions on the best or easiest or most efficient or
most reliable way to do what I want. I write these things in quotes
because I'm
it is on and hence take out the second disk.
My advise, go to hardware raid pci plugin card for the OS.
regards
S
-Original Message-
From: Jason Bleazard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2004 2:45 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1
: Wednesday, 28 July 2004 3:38 p.m.
To: Steven Jones
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Steven Jones wrote:
If you lose the first disk the machine's bios wont pick the second disk,
so the machine will not be bootable anyway.
when
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Steven Jones wrote:
If you lose the first disk the machine's bios wont pick the second disk,
so the machine will not be bootable anyway.
when the raid disks and kernel and grub/lilo are configured properly,
than it will boot of either/any number of disks in raid1 when
This must depend on the bios, all the ones I have seen did not allow this.
regards
S
-Original Message-
From: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2004 3:52 p.m.
To: Steven Jones
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mbr RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Steven Jones wrote:
Please explain how grub/lilo/mbr gets accessed when the first disk is not there?
From experience most intel based bioses are not bright enough to go
searching for another disk if 0x80 is not present.
your bios already have the otion built in ..
boot
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