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Re: HW raid 0 setup



On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:02:41AM -0700, nate wrote......

> Kevin Coyner said:
> 
> > SCSI device sda: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB)
> > SCSI device sdb: 35094528 512-byte hdwr sectors (17968 MB)
> >
> > Is this correct?  Since I'm setting this up as Raid0, shouldn't sda and
> > sdb be half that size at 8984MB each?  Or is it typical of Raid0 to
> > report the combined size of the two drives it uses for striping?
> 
> raid0 combines both drives. so if you run 2x9gig drives in raid0 you
> get 18gb. there is no redundancy in a raid0 configuration.
 
Jeez, I guess I got this one right.  Wow, what a breath of fresh air!

> you also should not need the raid0 module as that is for software raid
> and you appear to have a hardware raid controller.
 
Well, can't be perfect.  But this is easily enough removed.

Many thanks everyone.  

Kevin

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