On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:34:07PM -0700, Jason Chu wrote: > Alright. The boss would like us to start using the onboard Promise (PDC20265) chip for RAID1 now. I'm going to me moving it over this weekend. Before I do that I wanted to make a checklist to make sure I have all my facts straight. > > 1. Get kernel. I got 2.4.12, set it up and compiled it (with a similar config as the old 2.4.9 I had in there. I selected anything Promise related). > > 2. Make a backup (just in case I hose everything, and to help with the install). > > 3. Get that backup drive booting. > > 4. Set up grub to boot off the /dev/ataraid/d0 and set my root to /dev/ataraid/d0p<whatever> as well. > > 5. Shut down, unplug that backup drive, hit the power button. > > 6. Set up the array, and hope I get the right harddrive mirroring the other one. > > 7. Continue starting up and pray. > > Then fiddle, using the backup hard drive as a rescue system. > > Did I miss anything important? Like patching the kernel or some sort of userspace stuff? I'd really recommend using the normal linux software raid (md) for production use for now.... ata software raid 1 doesn't do failure handling yet...
