Re: Installing FC5 on Hardware Raid1 with SATA HD on Tyan Server

Hadders <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:29:49 +1200

karl@xxxxxxxx wrote:

  I
have a Tyan Transport GT20 server.  The server has
an onboard Adaptec RAID device and an onboard Intel RAID device.

  I've
installed FC3 and FC4 on single drive systems in the past without
issues.

  This is the first time I've installed
Fedora (I'd like to try FC5) in a RAID0 configuration.

  Hardware...

  Tyan
Transport GT20 based on Tyan Tomcat i7221A S5151 motherboard
  Adaptec
RAID and IntelRAID ROMs on the motherboard
  Twin
400GB Western Digital SATA Harddrives.

  I'd
like to use the hardware RAID to mirror the installation on both drives
(RAID1), so if one fails, I can just replace and rebuild via the RAID
utility.

  Can
someone guide me step-by-step how to accomplish this?

  Does
it matter if the drives are Master and Slave, or should I use the bays
that both make them Masters?
  Should
I be using the Adaptec RAID?

  Thanks,

Karl Ellzey

DANGER WILL ROBINSON!! *bleep* *bleep*

I assume you know that JD series Western Digital disks are in
compatible with some adaptec controllers. 

http://adaptec-tic.adaptec.com/cgi-bin/adaptec_tic.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=14154&p_created=1127142307&p_sid=SKh2o8ai&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NiZwX3Byb2RzPTAmcF9jYXRzPTAmcF9wdj0mcF9jdj0mcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1hbnN3ZXJzLnNlYXJjaF9ubCZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PVdlc3Rlcm4gRGlnaXRhbA**&p_li=&p_topview=1

This may not be the case for you, as you would have already discovered
this. Still I was amazed these kind of problems still exist today. 
This is the stuff of about 5 years ago.

I'd go for the Intel RAID on the chipset, given my recent grievance
with the adaptec stuff (personal preference).

If you're using SATA disks, they have no concept of master/slave in the
ATA sense. They are all masters, just on different ports (One disk per
SATA channel), so just pick one to be the RAID 1 Mirror master.

Hmm, the next step is not my forte, so I too am interested in how to
install here.

I would imagine it would be something like....  create a custom initrd
with the libs necessary to interact with the RAID container, but I'm
not sure how to do this either.

H

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