Re: IDE ATA RAID under Linux
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:32:39AM -0700, jennyw wrote:
> I'm about to buy a computer to act as a server, and I'd like it to have
> a relatively inexpensive RAID solution.
On recommendation from someone on this list I'm running a 3Ware Escalade 7000-2 in RAID 1
with 2 80GB Segate drives. I had a slightly hard time installing it because I was expecting
that I needed to do more work than I did.
It was basically install the card and drives in a new machine. Boot and enter the 3Ware
bios and say I want RAID 1. Then I installed Debian using my XFS boot CD-R I burned from
http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/ just like a normal install. Could not have
been any easier.
Card was about $120USD.
There's one kernel driver that I included when I rebuilt my kernel
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_3W_XXXX_RAID=y
I'm not sure, but I think that's to allow the user-level RAID utilities (available on CD-ROM
or 3Ware site) to access the raid controller.
You also need scsi support.
My notes have the comment on rebuilding the kernel:
First load the default config /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4-xfs
Then start walking the config
Turned off Multi-device suport (RAID and LVM) -- I have hardware RAID.
Removed a bunch of software RAID in IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices.
Left scsi support and removed all SCSI low-level drivers except 3ware
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Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org
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