Suggestions please

[Lance Haig]

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Hi Brian,

This is exactly what I want to do.

I will then remove the setting in bios for raid and setup software raid 
instead.

Thanks for the help.

Lance

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>Lance Haig wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>I have tried now for two days to get my SATA raid card to work with my
>>new server but I have decided that it is to much effort to find
>>drivers for it.
>>
>>I now have 2 80 gig SATA drives for my new MS server and was wondering
>>wat you guys would suggest as the ideal way to partition my system
>>
>>I normaly create a 500MB boot with EXT2 and then the rest is set to /
>>
>>I am open to suggestions.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Lance
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>Lance,
>
>
>Did you want to use the raid controllers raid ? Or were you planning on
>using software raid ? Most raid controllers are fake-raid anyways. Do a
>google search for 'linux fake raid'
>
>I use centos 4.2 and software raid with lvm etc. Works like a charm, you
>can even online resize etc. Its way more flexible than hardware raid, in
>particular because you can do things like, stripe a certain part of the
>disk and mirror another part. Also, the benefit of using software raid
>is that your data is not dependant on the raid controller being around,
>by that I mean, if your raid controller dies, you may well find yourself
>in the situation where you need to get *exactly* the same raid
>controller card, and possibly, the same firmware version, before you can
>get at your data. Not a nice situation.
>
>Give us some more details on what your trying to do and I'm sure there
>are plenty people who would be willing to help.
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>Brian.
>
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