Linux ATA RAID HOWTO
Murty Rompalli
April 26, 2002
| Revision History | ||
|---|---|---|
| Revision 2.0 | 2002-05-10 | Revised by: mr |
| Major enhancements | ||
| Revision 1.3 | 2002-05-07 | Revised by: jyg |
| format fixes | ||
| Revision 1.2 | 2002-04-30 | Revised by: mr |
| Minor fixes | ||
| Revision 1.1 | 2002-04-28 | Revised by: ldl |
| Some minor changes and sgml-improvements | ||
| Revision 1.0 | 2002-04-26 | Revised by: mr |
| Initial Release | ||
RAID is not limited to expensive SCSI disks anymore as more and more motherboard manufacturers are introducing motherboards with onboard RAID support for inexpensive IDE disks, known as ATA RAID. Promise Technolgy and HighPoint are two companies that dominate this ATA RAID market. This HOWTO document explains how to install Linux on an Intel Pentium compatible computer with an ATA RAID Controller (onboard chip or seperate card), single or multiple processors and atleast two hard disks. Currently, this document covers installing RedHat Linux 7.2 with Promise FastTrack ATA RAID Controller only.
- Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Copyright Information
- 1.2. Disclaimer
- 1.3. New Versions
- 1.4. Credits
- 1.5. Feedback
- 1.6. Translations
- 2. Requirements
- 3. Prepare Promise Driver Floppy
- 4. Preparing RedHat 7.2 CDs
- 5. Installing Red Hat 7.2
- 6. Installing Native Linux RAID
- 7. Installing on an existing Linux system
- 7.1. Append Line
- 7.2. Determining the Append Line
- 7.3. Setting Up RAID 1
- 8. Upgrading Kernel
- 9. Disabling RAID feature on Promise FastTrack
- 10. Tips and Important Notes
- 11. For more information
- A. How is this document generated
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| Introduction |