[Gllug] Hardware IDE RAID

[Xander D Harkness]

Simon Faulkner wrote:

> When using a hardware radi card for IDE drives such as the LSI 
> MegaRAID what happens when a drive fails?
>
> I am just playing with a new server and have setup the RAID Bios to 
> provide RAID 1 (MIRRORING)
>
> When I used the RedHat installer it saw 2 drives though E and G

If it is true hardware RAID then it should present only one drive.  Some 
of the cheaper IDE RAID devices use software to bind and control the 
devices, I would much rather use the kernel software raid in this case.

If you have a true hardware RAID card then I would expect it to be able 
to boot from either.

Make sure you leave sufficient time for the mirror to rebuild before 
testing the second drive :-)

Kind regards
Xander

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