RAID partition in Linux???

[fogleroller]

How does this work? I have 2 Maxtor 20g hdd's

ON the 1st partition is

\
\home
swap

directories

second hdd is RAID partition

Is the RAID partition identical to the 1st hdd?

 

[zzzz]

How do you have only one raid disk? I think you need at least 2 disks for raid.
And if the drives ide, then I don't know whether linux has support for ide-raid(hardware) yet.

 

[danielshoes]

Hey Mr. zzzzz above! Are you sleeping?
He said he has 2 (two) 20Gb Maxtor drives.

fogleroller, what is your RAID hardware? Onborad? PCI card?
Last Iwill socketA board, for example, featuring an AMI RAID onboard controller, has Linux support and also a big downloadable manual.

Try checking the controller manufacturer.

 

[danielshoes]

SORRY ZZZZ!!!

Now I've read all carefully.

He says:
"second hdd is RAID partition. Is the RAID partition identical to the 1st hdd?"

 

[fogleroller]

I figured it was some kind of Software RAID.

Will it work with the Abit Hot Rod ata 66/RAID PCI CARD?

 

[zzzz]

I don't think that particular card can do hardware raid in linux. I mean you can set up the raid drives in bios but linux won't recognise it. I have tried it with the HPT370 contoller. My win98, 2k etc can install themselves on the raided drive but not linux. This was 2 months ago, I don't know whether things have changed.
You might be able to create raid drives while installing linux but this would be software raid, you need to set the drives without the raid array in bios.(linux should see two HD's while installing)
I think Gentus 3a and mandrake 7.2 have support for the hot rod 66 out of the box(i.e, it will be recognised by the installation procedure)
Now my question remains:
What do you mean by "second HDD is a raid partition?" For raid both HDD's have to be used for creating the raid array.

 

[danielshoes]

About RAID linux support:

Visit Iwill support:

http://support.iwill.net/kv200r.htm

And tell me what kind of RAID support the KV200-R mainboard has.
Check the onboard AMI RAID controller manual.

 

[Zach]

To use RAID partitions you have to have at least two of them, and the configure your /etc/mdtab (I think) to use them.. Easiest (and what I do) is configure them during an install, Redhat 6.2 and 7.0 do it fine as long as you get the GUI install, I've had problesm with the older graphical installer on both versions.