Re: raid

[elyograg <elyograg@wolsi.com>]

At 12:51 PM 5/10/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to configure raid 1 using the frozen 2.2 with a Mylex raid card 
> (acceleraid 150).  Do I need the raid-1 kernel module?  Also, do I need 
> the raidtools and raidtools2 packages?  Thanks in advance.

If you have a hardware RAID device, and it's supported by the kernel, you 
don't need the software RAID drivers, as the controller will present the 
entire array to the computer as one big SCSI disk.  All of the operations 
involving building and rebuilding the array are handled in by the 
controller itself - a good controller will handle it while the system is 
running.  If you spend enough on the whole solution, you can even hot-swap 
the drives.

Hope that's helpful, and I'm reasonably sure it's accurate.  :)

Shawn