On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 06:06, Richard Bos wrote:
I'm looking into RAID, and as such I started to read the suse manual and the raid howto on the web. I still have some questions that someone on this list can answer.
1) Is it possible to add a soft raid after installation? The system I want to extend with raid (raid 1) is already up and running on single disk system (it has 2 disks).
Cannot help with this one.
2) How does one enable hardware raid. The motherboard has an onboard hardware raid controller. The controller does not really seem to be supported by linux (Promise 378). Anyway, I ask this out of interest ;) In case of hardware should it be done via the bios or completely different?
Since the controller is not supported it really is not an issue with this MB. If you purchase another controller make sure it has true hardware raid onboard and does not use software to do the work otherwise you would be just as well off using software raid. If you find a driver for this controller and want to use the current install drive, make sure you backup all of your work as adding this drive to the raid set will destroy any data on the disk. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge