Hi guys, I've spent on this at least 2hrs now and still am w/out a clue. I could get a HPT372-based HW RAID, but found a lot of reports on the net of haslles associated. Looked into TX2000, but found not positive reports on the net. (I am planning to install Mandrake 9.1 on a server.) I searched wide and deep on google "linux recommended raid", but nothing reasonably current turned up. FAQ at http://linas.org/linux/raid.html covers no uptodate recommendation for linux RAID hw. Could someone please tell me (a FAQ) of a cheap(er) RAID, where I could install out-of-the-box Mandrake 9.1 ? (I would like the boot & root fs to be on the RAID as well.) BTW, I have IDE drives, not SCSI drives. My HW is Intel P42.4 533FSB (RB) CPU, ASUS P4BGLMX-533. How much slower would it be with software RAID ? Could we have boot & root on software raid (for now just two disks mirrorred). I imagine boot wouldn't care, since it is just mirrored. But would MDK installation work ? Or should I just dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdc1 ; mount -o remount /dev/md... / after installation ? Thanks in advance ! John -- -- Gospel of Jesus' kingdom = saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
