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Well I got my raid5 working with software raid in linux. Wasn't totally what I had in mind but it works out better this way.
I installed linux (ubuntu) on an extra ide 60GB drive I wasn't using at the time.
I used these instructions and restarted then saw the md1 was actually my raid5 array. Created /media/raid and put the right entry into fstab so it would get mounted at boot. Should I ever move the raid 5 to another install or upgrade some hardware (to use use 5 drives) I should be able to just add another disk to the array.
I have my shares setup with samba and copied my data to the raid 5 with no problems. |
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I didn't think the lanparty series did RAID 4 or 5, just RAID 0/1/0+1. Hrmm.. I suppose I was mistaken.
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nForce4 chip supports two IDE connectors that allows connecting up to four
UltraDMA 133Mbps hard drives
NVIDIA RAID allows RAID arrays spanning across Serial ATA and Parallel ATA
RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1
Serial ATA with RAID
Four Serial ATA ports supported by the nForce4 chip
- SATA speed up to 3Gb/s
- RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1
- NVIDIA RAID allows RAID arrays spanning across Serial ATA and Parallel ATA
Four Serial ATA ports supported by the Silicon Image Sil 3114 chip
- SATA speed up to 1.5Gb/s
- RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and RAID 5
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I guess it does do RAID 5 if you're using SATA, I forget not everyone uses ancient harddrives like me 
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| Modulok wrote: | | actually the raid 5 is on my foxconn motherboard which does raid5. Not using the rig from my sig with the linux raid. |
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| Modulok wrote: | Should I ever move the raid 5 to another install or upgrade some hardware (to use use 5 drives) I should be able to just add another disk to the array.
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well this day came quicker than I expected...from the great barebone I bought from BigBruin, I just assembled my new server.
Tyan Thunder 2882-D MB, two Opteron 246's, 4x512MB DDR ECC, SATA Raid PCI with 4xSeagate 80GB in Raid 5 [from previous server], NetGear Wireless-B, 300GB Maxtor IDE, and 100GB Maxtor SATA OS drive. Zippy 720W PSU and Enermax Server Case.
Installed Ubuntu 6.06...install went perfect, found wireless card, raid card, 4xsata drives, etc. Did my basic setup and updated to latest and greatest. Time to tackle the task of getting my raid 5 array to be available in this new system.
Found that /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 already existed :-O
Did a quick "sudo mdadm –detail /dev/md0" and "sudo mdadm –detail /dev/md1 "to see md1 had all my raid5 info. I just needed to "sudo mount /dev/md1 /media/raid5" and it was there ready to go. Edited my fstab and it auto mounts like I had before.
Not sure how it would have came out with using the nvraid and moving to sliraid...can't be easier than linux raid.  |
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