Need Software RAID Help
Greetings,
I've been googling and read the administrator's guide to software RAID
but I'm still having problems getting it to work. I'm using two 80 Gb WD
hard drives on IDE connections, Epox EP-8RDA mobo, Athlon XP 3000, with
a gig of RAM. I first installed SUSE 10.0 then attempted to add the
second hard drive as a mirror or RAID 1. Couldn't figure that out. So I
tried a fresh install and during the partition section went to RAID tab
to attempt to set up RAID 1 then. It told me to change the partition's
to RAID which I couldn't do as the hard drives were already partitioned.
So I deleted the suggested partitions and then switched them to no
format RAID partitions. When I went to go to the next step I was
informed that I didn't have a swap partition. I'm not that well versed
in partitions and RAID 1 installing (obviously) and previously used the
suggested partitions which worked fine. But I want to use this as a SMB
server and protect vital data thus mirroring. I need a root, swap, boot
and user partitions (I think) and want them to be duplicated on the
second hard drive. Any suggestions?
TIA.
In the mean time, I'm going to continue to google. If I come up with the
answers I will post here. Any help or pointers to a tutorial much
appreciated.
Tom
.
Relevant Pages
- Re: Cannot upgrade from FC6->F7. No upgrade option given in install screen. (and RAID remnant)
... of past lvm or raid devices based upon the docs in the installation guide ... with the raid device /dev/md0 mdadm will not operate on that device. ... the partitions originally associated with the device have been deleted. ... I just recall some step allowed updates to be selected during install. ...
(Fedora) - Re: Hardware RAID, software RAID, 3ware 9550SX, level 1 vs. level 5
... I haven't setup a hardware RAID, but my understanding of it is that as it is done by hardware the software (i.e. Linux) doesn't know or care if it is a RAID system it just uses it as if it is an ordinary drive. ... - Any other ideas about a RAID board that's supported by a Sarge install or for which there are step-by-step instructions how now to install Sarge and then move it to RAID as is frequently done for mdadm? ... I used a software raid1 over 2 small partitions of the drives for the /boot partition, as my Linux can only boot from a RAID1 partition, and used the other two small partitions as a parallel swap partitions. ...
(Debian-User) - Re: Was "going to upgrade my old computer"
... Right now I I have done just a simple 1 Hard Drive install until I ... Then I will set up RAID, ... for preparing a driver floppy diskette. ... the other hard drives? ...
(microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware) - Re: Need Software RAID Help
... I've been googling and read the administrator's guide to software RAID ... to RAID which I couldn't do as the hard drives were already partitioned. ... So I deleted the suggested partitions and then switched them to no ... In the Expert option first make swap partitions on both drives, ...
(alt.os.linux.suse) - Re: Ruined m-board with bios update
... I imagine if it works I would then get the bios screen after ... be able to continue to access the content on all 7 hard drives? ... According to Tom's Hardware site you can move a RAID 0 O.S. from ... be able to continue to access the content on the other RAID 0 partitions ...
(microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter) |
|
