hi matthew... 3ware stuff is mostly raid0/raid1... - they supposed to have a raid5 controller too ...but... havent tested it
to boot from those scsi drives.. you'd need to use an initrd.gz file in your lilo.conf file... ( no different than if it was a regular scsi disk ( non-raid ) after you get it booting ... leave the scsi cable off of each drive and test that you can still boot.. have fun alvin http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know whether the 3ware escalade raid drivers are bootable? I.e do > I have to have a seperate non-raid drive on which to put the kernel. I'm > thinking that I shouldn't have to because the raid array appears to linux as > a SCSI drive, but the BIOS would also have to support it wouldn't it? > > Just hoping someone can shed some light on this. > > Matthew >
