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Re: RAID controllers -rehashed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jos Vos)
Wed Nov 20 15:58:33 1996
From: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 21:53:09 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <199611202032.OAA01757@hi.registrar.ksu.edu> from "James Cook" at Nov 20, 96 02:32:13 pm
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> > rehashing the RAID controller discussion of a couple weeks ago...
> > DPT seems to be universally suggested...
> > Once installed, what kind of setup process is needed to set up teh disks,
> > and to set the striping, and to activate?
> > or, rather, where are docs on setting up a hardware RAID 5 on linux?
>
> This part is theory for me, but I believe you have to use DPT's software to
> set the card up to do RAID. There's DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other versions
> of the setup software. Pick one, run it and it will set the card up to do
> the RAID for you. At that point, the drives look like one drive to Linux.
This is true. You can do this with a DOS bootflop and the DPT utility,
for example, and Linux then sees the logical volume as a "DPT disk".
So, in Linux you shouldn't (and can't) do anything in this case,
all is done at the controller level with the specific DPT utility.
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