Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 13:21:09 +0300 From: Yousef Raffah <yraffah@savola.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 RELEASE and Volume Managers Message-ID: <1147083669.1047.19.camel@localhost.savola.com> In-Reply-To: <E1Fd1sp-000FeI-85@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> References: <E1Fd1sp-000FeI-85@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 10:18 +0100, Pete French wrote: > > OK, I found out that my array has been already set up as RAID 5, which > > is what I'm looking for. Do you think it is time now to configure the > > volumes or is there something else needs to be done before that? > > If the array has been set up as RAID 5 then just go ahead and install > FreeBSD on it. I run a lot of machines like this, including a couple of > DL380's, and my home machine which has a COmpaq 5304 card plugged into > an MSI amd64 motherboard quite happily. > OK great :) Thanks a lot for all those helped me. > I usually try and istall a small Windows2000 partition on the machine as well > though, so that I can run the Compaq ACU code to manage the array. It can be > done from the BIOS, but there are a lot more features in the actual > application. > Might consider it for another server ;), thanks... > -pcf. -- Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at http://www.getfirefox.com [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEXxuVH9IXMb4e6CMRAnt9AJsF1PzZjFcOy70K1OQDA2qpuWV4AQCgmwQx RsI/vpNxc1/ny6dEbZNuukc= =Lmp6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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