Re: Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:17:04AM -0600, Michael Kahle wrote: | I also need some advise how to partition the drives. [...] | Any advise? [...] LVM. Make /boot and / as normal (with enough space to work with, but not too big, and make the rest an LVM volume. A volume will first aggregate one or

RE: Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-16 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Michael Kahle wrote: > The 3ware card is ATA RAID. I have SCSI disks in my system. I need a > hardware RAID card that supports my 68pin UltraSCSI drives. Doh. Me dummy. =) Hmm. Well, we've got an Adaptec 3410S w/256 meg cache, running 4 Seagate Cheetah X15-36lp's in a p

RE: Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-16 Thread Michael Kahle
>I didn't even bother installing the 3ware software that came with the card, there is enough >support built into the kernel to make it work just fine. Just remember it's not /dev/hd? >anymore, it's /dev/sd?. The 3ware card is ATA RAID. I have SCSI disks in my system. I need a hardware RAID car

RE: Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-16 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Michael Kahle wrote: > Thanks to the both of you for your comments. My boss gave me the go ahead > to purchase a Hardware RAID controller. I figured this would be a more > robust solution that the Software RAID. Any suggestions on a brand? I am > going to install Debian Wo

RE: Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-16 Thread Michael Kahle
Thanks to the both of you for your comments. My boss gave me the go ahead to purchase a Hardware RAID controller. I figured this would be a more robust solution that the Software RAID. Any suggestions on a brand? I am going to install Debian Woody on this computer so ideally I would want the co

Re: Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-16 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:17:04AM -0600, Michael Kahle wrote: > Disk: 6x 36MB Ultra SCSI disks > I also need some advise how to partition the drives. I figure most of it > will be one large partition (~80-100GB RAID 5), and a few other partitions > for things like swap, root, boot, homes, etc.

Re: Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-15 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Michael Kahle wrote: > Now I am installing Debian Woody. A fresh install. I cannot find how > during the installation to setup software RAID. Anyone know? If I'm remembering right, you can't do this for a Raid5 array.(is this still true?) I just did this on a Raid1 fresh

Re: Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-15 Thread Russell
Michael Kahle wrote: I just got the cable and adapters I need to bring life back into Geocentric.(1) 6x '80 to 68pin' SCSI adapters and a arms length SCSI 68pin round cable to tie them all together. I must say, I pray too little. I mount the 6 drives into the IBM Z-Pro chassis. Route the cable