Re: [Sheflug] Linux & RAID

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Collins" <matthew [at] janes.demon.co.uk>
To: <shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Linux & RAID


> > The disks attached to it hold over 40Gb of data, and thats before the
installation of any OS. I'm very cautious at the moment due to the amount of
info I stand to lose if it goes wrong.
> >
> > Anybody have any ideas......
>
> New 40GB drive will set you back about £60 all in. Is a backup of your
> data worth that much? At least then you could make a copy, then mess
> about with your raid to your hearts content.
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Thanks for all the replies chaps.

Well Ive done it, I think.

Not the upgrade or anything. But got it working with Redhat 8 without even
loading the drivers!!

It identifies it correctly as a hpt374 device and all the disks on it are
available.

I think i buggered up the first install by putting the grub loader on the
second boot disk instead of the first one and it just sat there looking
rather dumb.

Theres a major improvement in performance for the disks attached to the
card, and thats before they are even striped. Yup, there running as single
disks on the card for now. (I decided to do it that way so if there was a
problem, I'd have a better chance of recovering data from a single disk than
an array).

This card really is a seriously good piece of kit :)

Right, Im off to do the striping now....

Steve.

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