Re: Recommendations for server, 2 take
annpost@can.no wrote:
>Hi guys,
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>Last time I started a topic here, I was wondering about what server to
>buy. The server has been bought, and now I'm faced with getting it to
>work.
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>I've been searching for info for a while, and one easy solution I found
>was what I detailed in "Try this first?" on the wiki page:
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>http://wiki.debian.org/ServerHardware
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>My server has an ICH6-R SATA controller, and I have two identical
>drives. I'm going for a RAID configuration.
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>Any comments?
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Even though this chipset will allow you to setup an array, that array
won't be visable to linux, you will almost certainly still see 2 drives.
The reason for this is that all chipset based RAID is software raid, and
all the manufacturers put the raid functions into the drivers. Obviously
linux has it's own software RAID system and so doesn't allow it to
duplicated into every SATA controllers chipset. You have 2 options
really, the first is to ignore what the chipset can do and use it as a
controller and setup linux software raid with mdadm etc. The second is
to buy a real SATA hardware like card like those from 3ware.
Dave
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