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RAID root partitions and SLED 10

RAID root partitions and SLED 10
Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:12:44 GMT
I have a new workstation that has an SII3114 RAID controller and 3 160Gb
SATA drives.  The controller setup shows the drives already configured as a
RAID 5 array.  When I try to install SLED-10, the partitioning utility sees
the drives separately, and only tries to partition the first one.  Is it
advisable to set your boot partition, etc. on a RAID array?  If so, can you
provide instructions on the steps to take?  If this isn't a good idea,
should I install a small IDE drive and boot to it, with the RAID set up as
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Re: RAID root partitions and SLED 10
Sat, 08 Jul 2006 11:03:03 GMT
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Re: RAID root partitions and SLED 10
Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:26:38 GMT
ganderson@bslw.com wrote:

> I have a new workstation that has an SII3114 RAID controller and 3
> 160Gb SATA drives.  The controller setup shows the drives already
> configured as a RAID 5 array.  When I try to install SLED-10, the
> partitioning utility sees the drives separately, and only tries to
> partition the first one.  Is it advisable to set your boot partition,
> etc. on a RAID array?  If so, can you provide instructions on the
> steps to take?  If this isn't a good idea, should I install a small
> IDE drive and boot to it, with the RAID set up as a data area?

Hi,
I have same question, anybody out there ?

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