[olug] Upgrading to FC4 from FC3

A-Wal A-Wal at cox.net
Wed Jun 15 21:32:32 UTC 2005


I appear to have found what I'm looking for at this website.  I haven't 
tried it yet.  The ISOs are still downloading.  However, they make it 
look really easy.  I'm sure it's not though.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-software-raid.html

A-Wal wrote:

> Well, this raises another couple of questions.  Here's my current hard 
> drive layout.  I have one 200Gb ATA hard drive plugged into the MB, 
> and two identical 17Gb scsi plugged into a scsi PCI card.  The MB has 
> a raid controller on it, but to date I have never used it.  
> Unfortunately, the raid controller on the MB only allows you to use 
> two ATA hard drives, and I only have one.  I was wanting to learn how 
> to setup a raid under Linux, but will have to do it using my two scsi 
> hard drives instead.  My one ATA hard drive is used for dual 
> windows/Linux.  It has one 100Gb partition that windows uses, and I 
> use the other 100Gb for playing with Linux.  So far Grub has worked 
> great for dual booting into windows.  The idea would be to setup a 
> raid0 using my two 17Gb scsi hard drives, and use it for / to speed up 
> overall performance in Linux, and then use the other 100Gb from my ATA 
> hard drive for things like /home, /tmp, /usr, etc that aren't as 
> performance dependant.  I know that Linux has been using scsi since it 
> was pretty much first created, and I was wondering if there was a way 
> to setup my two scsi hard drives in raid0 using Linux itself, since I 
> can't use my raid controller on the MB.
>
>




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