FastTrak TX2000 and RHEL 3.1

[Samuel Flory]

Jonathan Baker-Bates wrote:
>>1)Go into the fasttrak bios.
>>   a)Delete your mirror.
>>   b)Create a stripped array with only a single for your first drive
>>   c)Create a stripped array with only a single for your second drive
> 
> 
> Thanks Samuel,
> 
> What exactly do you mean by "Create a stripped array with only a single..."?
> Do you mean "stripped" or "striped"? If the former, what's that? If the
> latter, I can't see how I can put a RAID0 configuration onto just one drive,
> if that's what you mean. I'm confused.


   Sorry I meant striped.

> 
> I'm using a Promise FastTrak TX2000 Lite by the way. The bios control is
> pretty basic.
> 

   The problem is that fasttrak doesn't have an option for jbod, or 
normal ide mode.  For what ever reason promise does give you an option 
to create a normal drive in their bios menu.  As odd as it sounds you 
can create a raid0 array with one drive.  Trust me it works despite 
being completely wrong in so many ways.  In fact I think it will let you 
create a mirror with one drive as well.

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