external RAID tower

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 05.10.2005 schrieb Vijay A Raghavan um 16:41:

> I have an external RAID tower which I would like to
> partition with the internal drives into one md0 raid
> drive with raid5 setup. 

> -Vijay

I would only call something an "external RAID tower" which has the
drives _and_ the controller. So such a device is transparent to the host
where it will be connected to. With other words, Linux will see just a
single storage device, not md0 (as it is no software RAID) but sda for
instance.
How to configure such an external storage device depends on the device.
You will have to consult the manual. Probably the BIOS allows you to
arrange the drives into the RAID arrays you want to have.

Alexander


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