[K12OSN] RAID Question

Dan Young dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us
Mon Apr 6 20:06:58 UTC 2009


On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Joseph Bishay <joseph.bishay at gmail.com> wrote:
> that is the chip on the RAID controller so the hardware is there and
> seems to be working.
>
> Am I missing a step to get the drives to act as a RAID? I thought
> hardware raid was only suppose to report the unified array to the OS
> so it wouldn't see two drives?

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#fakeraid

You didn't mention your distro, but support for these quasi-RAID chips
varies widely w/ your kernel and dmraid version. The dmraid tools are
probably required here. Good luck!

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Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
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