I'm using a 3ware raid card in a machine at home using raid 1 an i boot off of the raid aray with no problems. Not sure why you say you had to install the /boot on a non raid drive. jack also have an adaptec raid controller here at work with same setup an have it booting off the raid aray also. both are ide raid controlers. At 03:53 PM 11/4/2002 -0500, harry302 wrote:
===== Original Message From James.Rocks@equant.com ===== Hi,
I have just inherited a dual PIII/500 with a number of SCSI discs and I hope to build a machine with 3 x 4Gb & 1 x 9Gb drives. I have to have one of the 4Gb as ID 0 (because it is in a removable drive caddy and the 8Gb wont fit) but the rest don't matter overmuch and I have played around with SuSE 8.0 on it. SuSE can create a RAID on it (though as yet I haven't tried with a mix of 4 & 9Gb drives) but if I try to create a single raid I can't create a boot partition, if I create a boot partition I end up with boot, whatever's left on ID0 and then the rest as RAID.
So what I was after was some advice ... how would you set it up?
James
James C. Rocks Equant Archway House Canary Wharf
I have 2 ide drives 1 - 30 gig and the other 40 gig. each one is set up as the primary drive on each of the controllers.
I set it up for raid 1. /boot needs to be set up on a non raid partition and try installing 1- swap disk on each disk.
the rest of the file systems can be set up on raid partitions.
I did this with a fresh install of use 8.0. I also have windows 98 on the first drive and freebsd on the second drive.
My amd k63d 450 runs much faster now
good luck
harry a
London E14 9SZ
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