Re: setting up mirrored server
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 05:20:47AM +0800, Jon Miller wrote:
> I'm in the process of setting up a server with 2 disks that I want
> to mirror. I'm using a Promise Fasttrack S150 Tx2 plus SATA card.
> I've gotten the system to boot stating it has the 1 logical volume,
> however, when I use the Sarge DVD to do the install it reports the 2
> physical drives instead of the single volume. Is this correct or have
> I not done something right. Based on info I've found on google, it
> seems that I have to partition one drive and mimic the partition on
> the second drive. Is this correct?
No. Create a software raid array (in the sarge installer), and install
sarge onto that. Your Promise Fasttrack card is not a raid controller;
it merely contains software raid drivers for DOS/windows on its ROM.
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