Re: [SLUG] Motherboard for software raid

2005-06-21 Thread jhonan
> Jamie > > My thinking is that I should use one IDE boot/root non raid > > disk, and three SATA drives for the raid. > > Is there a good reason for that? > > I would be thinking to make a small boot partition (100M or less) > and use the initrd to establish the drivers and get the RAID running

Re: [SLUG] Motherboard for software raid

2005-06-21 Thread telford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 07:41:27PM +1000, Jamie Honan wrote: > My thinking is that I should use one IDE boot/root non raid > disk, and three SATA drives for the raid. Is there a good reason for that? I would be thinking to make a small boot partition

[SLUG] Motherboard for software raid

2005-06-20 Thread Jamie Honan
I'm looking for recommendations for motherboards suitable for doing linux SATA software raid 5 with. An example setup is http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/storage.html My thinking is that I should use one IDE boot/root non raid disk, and three SATA drives for the raid. Anyone have any advice,