Re: Follow-up: Worst night ever...
Michael Kahle wrote:
I just got the cable and adapters I need to bring life back into
Geocentric.(1) 6x '80 to 68pin' SCSI adapters and a arms length SCSI 68pin
round cable to tie them all together. I must say, I pray too little. I
mount the 6 drives into the IBM Z-Pro chassis. Route the cables, attach the
adapters, power; now give it a shot! BAAM!!
Kidding, everything works well. My new IBM Z-Pro is now equip with the
following:
Proc: 1Ghz PIII Xeon
RAM: 1GB
SCSI: Adaptec AIC-7899
Disk: 6x 36MB Ultra SCSI disks
CDRW: LiteOn 48x24x48
TAPE: Dell PowerVault 110T
Now I am installing Debian Woody. A fresh install. I cannot find how
during the installation to setup software RAID. Anyone know?
When you compile a new kernel with the 'make menuconfig' step, there's
a bunch of options for enabling raid. I don't know if it's enabled by
default.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=raid+howto&btnG=Google+Search
I also need some advise how to partition the drives. I figure most of it
will be one large partition (~80-100GB RAID 5), and a few other partitions
for things like swap, root, boot, homes, etc. I am of the school that has
had only a few partitions in the past. One for boot, one for root and one
for swap. I understand that this is not the best way to configure ones
system. Any advise? Please be detailed.
50MB for /boot on hda1 (in case the bios/lilo can't access the entire HDD),
256MB-1GB of swap on hda2,
root / on hda3 for the rest.
The lack of partitions shouldn't matter if you have good backups. For a
busy system, the choices of partitions may affect io speed.
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