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Linux DPT Hardware RAID HOWTO
Ram Samudrala
(me@ram.org)
v1.62, August 4, 2004
How to set up hardware RAID under Linux. This HOWTO is now limited to making small changes from version 1.6.
1.
Introduction
2.
Supported controllers
2.1 DPT controllers
2.2 ICP vortex controllers
3.
What hardware should be used?
3.1 Controller type
3.2 Enclosure type
4.
Installation
4.1 Installing and configuring the hardware
4.2 Configuring the kernel
4.3 Bootup messages
5.
Usage
5.1 fdisk, mke2fs, mount, etc.
5.2 Hot swapping
5.3 Performance
6.
Features in the EATA DMA driver
7.
Troubleshooting
7.1 Upon bootup, no SCSI hosts are detected
7.2 RAID configuration shows up as N different disks
7.3 Machine/controller is shut down in the middle of a format
7.4 SCSI_ABORT_BUSY errors produced during initial filesystem format
7.5 If all fails...
8.
References
9.
Acknowledgements
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