Re: software RAID

[Bob Hutchinson <hutchlists@midwales.com>]

On Saturday 05 Nov 2005 09:53, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 09:39:35AM +0000, Bob Hutchinson wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 Nov 2005 09:27, Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, 
wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > Can anyone confirm/deny that Debian 3.1 can support software RAID1 on
> > > > SATA discs?
> > >
> > > Works OK for me - the setup is a bit arcane though :-)
> >
> > aaargh, any pointers? ;-)
>
> I don't know anything about arcane; software RAID1 is a supported
> configuration in the 3.1 installer, and is documented as such in the
> manual. The only consideration is whether your SATA drives are actually
> supported (many SATA controllers only got kernel support after the 2.6.8
> version that sarge froze at).
>
> BTW, debian-user is a more appropriate list for such questions, since
> Debian 3.1 is *not* testing...

Ah, thank you, I'll repost there.


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