Installing FC5 on Hardware Raid1 with SATA HD on Tyan Server
David Timms
dtimms at bigpond.net.au
Fri Jun 16 12:04:45 UTC 2006
karl at iepg.com wrote:
> I have a Tyan Transport GT20 server. The server has an onboard Adaptec RAID
> device and an onboard Intel RAID device.
>
> I've installed FC3 and FC4 on single drive systems in the past without
> issues.
>
> This is the first time I've installed Fedora (I'd like to try FC5) in a
> RAID0 configuration.
>
> Hardware...
>
> Tyan Transport GT20 based on Tyan Tomcat i7221A S5151 motherboard
> Adaptec RAID and IntelRAID ROMs on the motherboard
> Twin 400GB Western Digital SATA Harddrives.
>
> I'd like to use the hardware RAID to mirror the installation on both drives
> (RAID1), so if one fails, I can just replace and rebuild via the RAID
> utility.
>
> Can someone guide me step-by-step how to accomplish this?
>
> Does it matter if the drives are Master and Slave, or should I use the bays
> that both make them Masters?
> Should I be using the Adaptec RAID?
What is the actual chip number for both raid devices ?
Warning some issues with i2o raid I think are present since kernel
2.16, and might soon be fixed.
DaveT.
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