[CoLoCo] RAID question

[NICK VERBECK]

You should see a boot up a second BIOS start up shortly after the 1st.
It tends to say something like "RAID controller booting up press F9
for setup." That is where you configure it I believe. As for how to do
it in there I am lost.

As for the partitions and drives not sure but depending on the age of
the RAID controller. You need to have 2 drives of the same speed and
space. Real old ones you must also have the exact same drive.
Manufacture and all. As for the partitions the RAID controller doesn't
care about the partitions. Nor can it mirror one partition to another.
That would call for a software based RAID system.

Now I may be wrong on some stuff. I am just going from what I have
pieced together from conversations I have had. If someone knows
different please speak up.

On Nov 25, 2007 12:11 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
> Okay, I'm in the process of setting up 64 bit gutsy on a new drive
> (actually typing this while doing the install - lets see a windows
> user do that). I actually have 2 of the exact same drives and I
> decided the best way to do backups is to just do RAID 1 (mirroring).
> That way I'll always have an exact duplicate of the drive and if
> anything goes bad I'm covered (unless they both die at the same time).
> Is that correct thinking on my part?
>
> Now for the main question. Do I have to set up the mirror drive with
> the exact same partitions or will with the RAID controller do that (I
> have nVidia RAID on my mobo)? If the controller does it all, how to I
> tell the controller to do it? Or will it just do it automatically?
>
> Thanks.
> jim
>
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