3ware 9000 Series SATA Raid and Fedora Core 2 ?

[Robert Burton]

So do you think i would be better off with Fedora Core 3 test 2?

I plan on using three disk in RAID 5. Is it possible to "convert"
drive that is not mirrored to a RAID 5? I'm sure you could do this
with mirroring. But what if I did as you suggest and update the OS and
them want to go RAID 5?

Actually I'm not sure even that is feasible since the drive would not
be visible during install because the driver is not their.

I guess I could install on onboard bus then swing it over to 3Ware card.


Thanks,
Robert



On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:40:48 +0200, Erwin Cloostermans
<erwin.cloostermans at pandora.be> wrote:
> According to the manual you can boot from an array, at least in red hat 9,
> so I gues it will also go in Fedora.
> Make sure you update your Fedora first to avoid the problems I'm having now.
> 
> Erwin
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Burton [mailto:fujikura at gmail.com]
> Sent: donderdag 23 september 2004 23:31
> To: erwin.cloostermans at pandora.be; For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: 3ware 9000 Series SATA Raid and Fedora Core 2 ?
> 
> I'm going to be installing a similar 3ware 9000 series card in a few days.
> 
> I'm interested in one of your side questions. Can you boot off of an array
> in Fedora?
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert
> 
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:08:21 +0200, Erwin Cloostermans
> <erwin.cloostermans at pandora.be> wrote:
> >
> > echo "alias scsi_hostadapter 3w-9xxx" >> /etc/modprobe.conf
> >
> > If you need or want the module already during the initial boot, run
> > "mkinitrd" to create a new initial ram disk with all SCSI modules.
> >
> > Alexander
> >
> > My modprobe.conf contains
> > alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
> > alias scsi_hostadapter1 3w-xxxx
> >
> > Shouldn't I change 3w-xxxx in 3w-9xxx ?
> > What is the first scsi_hostadapter for ?
> >
> > I already tried
> > alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
> > alias scsi_hostadapter1 3w-9xxx
> > And
> > #alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
> > alias scsi_hostadapter 3w-9xxx
> >
> > But that did not work.
> >
> > I think an initial ram disk is only neccesary if I want to boot from
> > the raid array. Is that right ?
> >
> >
> >
> > Erwin
> >
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