<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE> Linux DPT Hardware RAID HOWTO </TITLE> <LINK HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-1.html" REL=next> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-1.html">Next</A> Previous Contents <HR> <H1> Linux DPT Hardware RAID HOWTO </H1> <H2>Ram Samudrala <CODE>(me@ram.org)</CODE> </H2> v1.62, August 4, 2004 <P><HR> <EM>How to set up hardware RAID under Linux. This HOWTO is now limited to making small changes from version 1.6.</EM> <HR> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc1">1.</A> <A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-1.html">Introduction</A></H2> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc2">2.</A> <A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-2.html">Supported controllers</A></H2> <UL> <LI><A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.1">2.1 DPT controllers</A> <LI><A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.2">2.2 ICP vortex controllers</A> </UL> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc3">3.</A> <A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-3.html">What hardware should be used?</A></H2> <UL> <LI><A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1">3.1 Controller type</A> <LI><A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.2">3.2 Enclosure type</A> </UL> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc4">4.</A> <A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-4.html">Installation</A></H2> <UL> <LI><A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.1">4.1 Installing and configuring the hardware</A> <LI><A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2">4.2 Configuring the kernel </A> <LI><A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.3">4.3 Bootup messages </A> </UL> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc5">5.</A> <A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-5.html">Usage</A></H2> <UL> <LI><A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.1">5.1 fdisk, mke2fs, mount, etc.</A> <LI><A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.2">5.2 Hot swapping </A> <LI><A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.3">5.3 Performance </A> </UL> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc6">6.</A> <A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-6.html">Features in the EATA DMA driver</A></H2> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc7">7.</A> <A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-7.html">Troubleshooting</A></H2> <UL> <LI><A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.1">7.1 Upon bootup, no SCSI hosts are detected</A> <LI><A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.2">7.2 RAID configuration shows up as N different disks</A> <LI><A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.3">7.3 Machine/controller is shut down in the middle of a format</A> <LI><A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.4">7.4 SCSI_ABORT_BUSY errors produced during initial filesystem format</A> <LI><A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.5">7.5 If all fails...</A> </UL> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc8">8.</A> <A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-8.html">References </A></H2> <P> <H2><A NAME="toc9">9.</A> <A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-9.html">Acknowledgements </A></H2> <HR> <A HREF="DPT-Hardware-RAID-HOWTO-1.html">Next</A> Previous Contents </BODY> </HTML>
