[rhn-users] RAID question, for RHEL WS (v. 3 for x86)

Dan Wittenberg daniel-wittenberg at uiowa.edu
Tue Aug 3 14:34:09 UTC 2004


If it saw it as 2 drives, I'd guess you don't have hardware RAID.  I
haven't used that particular Dell, but the other ones I've setup with
hardware RAID you would only see 1 drive as expected.

Unfortunately I can't answer the other question, as I tend to avoid
software RAID like the plague :)

Dan

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 09:32, Jeff Port wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> First time poster here, if this has been covered here previously I 
> apologize in advance.  Here's my situation, I recently upgraded a 
> system from RH 8 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3 for x86).  The 
> system, a Dell Precision, had two IDE drives combined in RAID to 
> appear as one drive.  I believe the system to have the a hardware 
> RAID capability.
> 
> I made the assumption (rash, I know) that the new OS would see the 
> two drives in the RAID configuration and present that as an option 
> during the installation.  Fortunately, I did backup all the data prior to 
> the upgrade.  The new OS sees the drives a two separate entities 
> now, so my question to this group: how do I get them back together as 
> one in what I assume was a RAID 0 configuration?
> 
> TIA for any advice.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
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