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<DIV>The Alpha I was running had a similar issue. RH did not support the RAID card as a boot device so I could not "boot" from the array. I was forced to install a "boot" drive and then the supporting driver for the hardware...a little more exposed than I wanted since the boot drive is not mirrored or raid - but it is essentially only in use at boot time, all the system info/programs and swapspace is on the raid.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Joe</DIV>
<DIV><BR><B><I>Justin Bennett <justin.bennett@dynabrade.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">US-itek is great, got lots of stuff cheap, I bought an IDE raid card <BR>from them, about the same price. We buy SCSI raid cards all the time, in <BR>the scsi bios you setup what you want in the raid array and it apears as <BR>one drive to the OS. Using the IDE card I got, It had drivers (non <BR>linux) I set it up in the "bios" on the card, and booted to RedHat 2.1ES <BR>install, It showed up as another IDE controller and I saw both drives. <BR>It didn't show the raid array. I assume this may be because there wasn't <BR>a linux driver for this raid card. It's possible the driver does the <BR>RAID, and the card is just a couple of IDE channels. Who knows. I <BR>wouldn't reccomend it. I wound up just doing software raid with 2 IDE <BR>drives. I have several machines doing software raid with IDE drives, it <BR>works out ok. I didn't look into getting a driver for it, I just wen!
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<BR>software.<BR><BR>Justin<BR><BR><BR>Justin Bennett<BR>Network Administrator<BR>RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)<BR>Dynabrade, Inc.<BR>8989 Sheridan Dr.<BR>Clarence, NY 14031<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>JJ Neff wrote:<BR><BR>>Anyone using these. US ITEK has a ATA100 RAID controller for under 50 I think<BR>>(or thereabouts) and as long as RAID 0-1 or 0/1 are configurable in BIOS and<BR>>dont require Windows software it shoudl work in Linux.<BR>><BR>>ANyone try one . sound like I could get some more life out of my pile of<BR>>older 4/6/9 GB drives...<BR>><BR>>JJN<BR>><BR>>__________________________________<BR>>Do you Yahoo!?<BR>>New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing.<BR>>http://photos.yahoo.com/<BR>> <BR>></BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr SIZE=1>
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