[CentOS] Re: IDE RAID support

Nick Bryant nick at everywhereinternet.com
Fri Jul 22 01:05:56 UTC 2005


> But what about the not being able to reliably put /boot on a raid 
> partition ? I haven't tried this since 4.0, doe it work properly now ?

To be honest i didn't have time to test it (famous last words), but yes, 
i've previously had problems. Apperently using PALO you can get it to work 
nicely though:

http://www.parisc-linux.org/faq/raidboot-howto.html

>
>>
>> Indeed. I freaked out when I couldn't get my sata promise raid 
>> controlling
>> working in Acer Altos series servers... Till I read an article that said 
>> in
>> 2.4 its actually just as quick (if not quicker, depending on server
>> hardware) to let the kernel deal with the raid stuff.
>>
>> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-raid-a
>> pproaches.html
>>
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