<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe Votour</b> <<a href="mailto:joevph@yahoo.com">joevph@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br><br>--- Steve Adeff <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com">adeffs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:30, Michael Haan wrote:
<br>> > On 1/8/06, Steve Adeff <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com">adeffs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > > On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:20, Joe Votour<br>> wrote:<br>> > > > --- Steve Adeff <
<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com">adeffs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><snip><br><br>> > > > > Thanks for the help!<br>> > > > > --<br>> > > > > Steve<br>> > > > >
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<br><br><snip><br><br>> > ><br>> > > I have nvRaid, so I guess I'm better off using<br>> the linux "md" raid.<br>> > > So are these SATA ports useless to me? could I<br>> still use them and just
<br>> > > use "md" for the actual RAID stuff?<br>> > ><br>> ><br>> > Yes, that's exactly what I do. 4 SATA 250's in a<br>> RAID 5 config using<br>> > mdadm.<br>><br>> So you use the raid controller but use mdadm to
<br>> handle the RAID array?<br>><br>> thanks,<br>> Steve<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org
</a><br>><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>><br><br>What you do is use the ports in non-RAID mode (i.e.<br>make them all regular SATA ports) and use mdadm to
<br>create and manage the RAID array.<br><br>-- Joe<br><br><br><br>__________________________________________<br>Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about.<br>Just $16.99/mo. or less.<br><a href="http://dsl.yahoo.com">dsl.yahoo.com
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<div><br>Exactly. Give them a raid filesystem, then create the array using mdadm, then put whatever filesystem on it that you want - I use reiserfs. Below is my mdadm.conf:</div>
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<div>DEVICE /dev/sda* /dev/sdb* /dev/sdc* /dev/sdd*<br>ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=4 auto=yes UUID=9b1c10ee:174c369e:815e8d0<br>7:1e7570a3<br> devices=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb,/dev/sdc,/dev/sdd</div>