On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 21:08, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya Raiders > > okay... i confess ... i'm lost and confused ... > > we have a dual amd mb + 9 drive bays w/ 200GB drives > > the drives are connected to a 3ware 7500-8 > and the drives is recognized during bios bootup and linux-2.4.19/20 > bootup recognized the controller too > > the 3ware bios created the raid array out of the 8 drives > ( supposedly .. waited a long time for it to finish ) > > 3dm was installed from the cdrom that came w/ the controller > > http://localhost:1080 > - shows the list of drives in the raid > - shows the other info abut the 3ware card Sounds like you've got things set up correctly. > but now that i wanna use the hw raid, and want to do: > fdisk /dev/md0 > mke2fsc -j -m 1 /dev/md0 > mount /dev/md0 /Raid > > but there is no such thing as /dev/md0 ... *pout* Err, right, there isn't. /dev/md? is only for software RAID devices. If you've got the 3ware kernel modules loaded, then your 3ware RAID device should show up as /dev/sd? dmesg should have more info, or /proc/scsi. > what is the name of the device ( /dev/xxx ) that 3ware built ?? > - went digging/googling around but didnt find my answer yet > > for freebsd ... i think its /dev/twed > > -- if its supposed to be /dev/md0 ... guess some step along the > way is missing in the steps i did to configure the 3ware 7500-8 card > > -- ie .. i dont see the 3ware bios section that allows > a JBOD vs raid5 either... so its defaulted to raid5 for now There is a way to configure the 3ware card to just work as JBOD. I don't recall what it is offhand (I've got an older card with only 4 ports as well). It doesn't seem to make much sense to buy a pretty nice RAID card like this one and then not use it's RAID features, though. HTH, Greg
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