Re: PCI ATA card support
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:08:15PM +1100, Lindsay Yardley wrote:
> G'day Alvin/All,
> | - why do you want raid???
> I'm setting up a file/print server.
> |
> | - sometimes you cannot boot off hde/hdg
> | - did you test that you cn boot off hde/hdg
> don't want to boot from it.
>
> hda1 - /boot
> hda2 - /
> hda3 - swap
> hde/g raid set - /var
> hde/g raid set - /home
>
> that's why i asked if it would be possible/advisable to first install debian
> to hda1,2,3 then
> add the RAID1 set, format/mount it and move /var & /home over to it.
This wasn't entirely clear, he says having re-read the thread. This is
how I'd do it. I messed about with RAID a while ago just to get some
idea of what it was about, using the following method:
1) Take one machine with woody and some spare HDs
2) Add RAID support to the kernel (I use custom kernels)
3) Read the stuff about RAID in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO
4) Issue a few commands according to what I'd just read
- bingo! one working RAID set.
Step 4 a problem? The reason it's so vague was that I found that
having done step 3, step 4 turned out to be sufficiently
straightforward that I didn't bother remembering the details of
what I did (just thought "OK, that was easy, now I can take it all
apart again"). So take heart!
> So far I've found out I need to use the 2.4 kernel and set the ATA card
> IDE's at boot with "Boot: bf24 ide2=0x6200,0x6302,11 ide3=0x6400,0x6502,11"
> where ide2=[start IO address],[end IO address],[IRQ].
You seem to have the hardware working, so the hard part is over.
Pigeon
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