Sean and Peter - If I was reading the correct specs, they said Linux up to RH 9. It is compatible with Centos/RHEL? I may go with the 2-port version and just RAID two-80 GB drives and keep my 2-30 GB drives as extra storage. *** Can I pre install Centos on one of my 80 GB drives and after the controller arrives, plug the 2-80 GB drives into it and then mirror the drive? Todd Sean O'Connell wrote: >On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 13:08 -0700, Todd Cary wrote: > > >>I have not used RAID controller boards to date since I have relied on >>the built in RAID on the motherboards. Thanks to the informative >>message Byron, I realize the deficiencies of doing RAID 1 this way, >>especially now that the builtin is out of date with Kernel used by >>Centos. >> >>I have 4 ATA drives that were configured in two pairs. I assume that >>I need a 3Wave controller that has 4 ports like the >>7506-4LP...correct? >> >>Do I need to install any software during the installation of Centos? >> >> > >Todd- > >The installation will recognize the 3ware card and the arrays that you >build on it (you do this in the card bios Alt+3 at boot). As Peter said, >you'll want to make sure the card is using the latest firmware (you'll >need a dos boot disk and a floppy with the firmware utility on it, comes >as a zip file from the 3Ware site) -- iirc, the latest version is 7.7.1 >for 7xxx and 8xxx cards. You also probably want to get run the 3dmd >utility as it will notify you about failed disks and other issues by >email and can do background media checks... very nice. > >Sean > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > -- Ariste Software 200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050909/a15881a7/attachment-0005.html>