Re: Building a RAID system
On (01/02/05 13:35), seb@frankengul.org wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:11:30PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > I'm no expert but I configured two servers using HP's hardware raid
> > configuration a couple of years back and didn't do anything in Debian to
> > configure Raid. More recently, I set up two more servers using software
> > raid1 (mdadm).
> >
> > I believe you either do one or the other, not both.
> >
> > FWIW the later two servers have SATA drives and I'm using 2.6.8-1-686
> > kernel.
> You're describing hardware RAID handled by a dedicated piece of hardware
> (the SCSI controler), whereas he's describing software RAID handled by
> the kernel (soft only implementation).
Hi Seb
I'm not sure I understand...he said:
"I turned raid on in the bios for the two channels that I have the hard
drives hooked up to but when I got to the partitioning section of the
installation I was confused. The only way I could figure out how to get
the raid going was to use the "software raid" function in the partition
menu."
If he turned on Raid in the BIOS, is that not Hardware Raid?
When I installed software Raid1 on those two servers recently, I didn't
implement anything in the BIOS, it was all done in Debian.
Regards
Clive
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