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Lance Haig wrote:

> 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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