Configure Raid (0 or 1) on RX2620 Server

[klai]

Actually our RX2620 do not support raid (the controler does'nt support).
How can we configure the raid in this case.
we want (if possible) a detailed procedure

[Ivan Ferreira]

Your only option is to use software RAID. RAID 0 is not advisable.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-software-raid.html

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Your rx2620 CAN support raid if you purchase and install a P400 raid controller.

This is the best performance option.

Use Ivan's link for RAID 1. Raid 0 is a terrible idea.

SEP

[Joshua Scoggins]

If you have all three hard drive bays loaded you could also setup a RAID 5 instead of a RAID 1. You would lose the capacity of one of the drives but you would gain a large amount of parity. I have RAID 5 setup on my ZX6000 in debian and am very glad I did it.

Just remember that if your setting this up you need to tell ELILO to delay mounting the disks until all of the scsi drives are enumerated. Its "delayroot=10" for delay mounting the root for 10 seconds. Otherwise the system may not boot because it can't find the hard disks. Not sure if its an issue with RAID 1 but it was a pain on RAID 5