On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Miguel Medalha<miguelmedalha at sapo.pt> wrote: > >> Yet, I can't setup the RAID 10 they talk about, I only have RAID0, >> RAID1, RAID5 & RAID6 in the setup options, which is why I'm thinking >> of doing this another way. >> > > Then maybe there is something wrong with your partitioning scheme or > even physical layout. What drives do you have and how are they > partitioned? How are they physically connected? > _______________________________________________ Sure, that's the first thing to check :) I have 4x 250GB HDD's, and I partitioned them as follows: /dev/sda1 - 100MB type software RAID /dev/sda2 - 4096MB type swap /dev/sda3 - 240GB type software RAID /dev/sdb1 - 100MB type software RAID /dev/sdb2 - 4096MB type swap /dev/sdb3 - 240GB type software RAID /dev/hdb1 - 100MB type software RAID /dev/hdb2 - 4096MB type swap /dev/hdb3 - 240GB type software RAID /dev/hdd1 - 100MB type software RAID /dev/hdd2 - 4096MB type swap /dev/hdd3 - 240GB type software RAID Now, from here I should have been able to create a RAID 10 device from /sda3, sdb3, hdb3, hdd3 - but RAID 10 isn't available. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532