Hi, I am new to setting up RAID arrays, and I have experimented in the past with software only RAID, but now I have a new Dell PowerEdge 1900 with a SAS RAID controller daughter card. My question is: What is the difference in tools that I will use to create and manage this hardware array? Can I still use all the same techniques and tools such as mdadm, LVM2, and GParted to manage my array? or is it all in the bios. Another question is how should I format these disks? Typically I would use a root file system, and a swap file system that is twice the size of my memory. Since all four of my disks are used for hardware RAID, can I partition this into 2 array's? one for my root, and the other for swap... Any advice into setting this up is greatly appreciated. Thanks Rick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
