<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Linux ATA RAID HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="intro.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="ARTICLE" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="TITLE" ><A NAME="AEN2">Linux ATA RAID HOWTO</H1 ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN4" >Murty Rompalli</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="AFFILIATION" ><DIV CLASS="ADDRESS" ><P CLASS="ADDRESS" > murty@solar.m u r t y.n e t<br> </P ></DIV ></DIV ><P CLASS="PUBDATE" >April 26, 2002<BR></P ><DIV CLASS="REVHISTORY" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-05-10</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: mr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Major enhancements</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.3</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-05-07</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: jyg</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >format fixes</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.2</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-04-30</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: mr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Minor fixes</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-04-28</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: ldl</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Some minor changes and sgml-improvements</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-04-26</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: mr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Initial Release</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="ABSTRACT" ><A NAME="AEN37"><P ></P ><P > RAID is not limited to expensive SCSI disks anymore as more and more motherboard manufacturers are introducing motherboards with onboard RAID support for inexpensive IDE disks, known as ATA RAID. Promise Technolgy and HighPoint are two companies that dominate this ATA RAID market. This HOWTO document explains how to install Linux on an Intel Pentium compatible computer with an ATA RAID Controller (onboard chip or seperate card), single or multiple processors and atleast two hard disks. Currently, this document covers installing RedHat Linux 7.2 with Promise FastTrack ATA RAID Controller only.</P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="intro.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="intro.html#COPYRIGHT" >Copyright Information</A ></DT ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="intro.html#DISCLAIMER" >Disclaimer</A ></DT ><DT >1.3. <A HREF="intro.html#NEWVERSIONS" >New Versions</A ></DT ><DT >1.4. <A HREF="intro.html#CREDITS" >Credits</A ></DT ><DT >1.5. <A HREF="intro.html#FEEDBACK" >Feedback</A ></DT ><DT >1.6. <A HREF="intro.html#TRANSLATIONS" >Translations</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="requirements.html" >Requirements</A ></DT ><DT >3. <A HREF="preparation.html" >Prepare Promise Driver Floppy</A ></DT ><DT >4. <A HREF="preparing.html" >Preparing RedHat 7.2 CDs</A ></DT ><DT >5. <A HREF="installing.html" >Installing Red Hat 7.2</A ></DT ><DT >6. <A HREF="nativeraid.html" >Installing Native Linux RAID</A ></DT ><DT >7. <A HREF="existing.html" >Installing on an existing Linux system</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >7.1. <A HREF="existing.html#APPENDLINE" >Append Line</A ></DT ><DT >7.2. <A HREF="existing.html#DETERMINE" >Determining the Append Line</A ></DT ><DT >7.3. <A HREF="existing.html#SETTINGUP" >Setting Up RAID 1</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >8. <A HREF="upgrading.html" >Upgrading Kernel</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >8.1. <A HREF="upgrading.html#CASE1" >Promise Technology (<TT CLASS="FILENAME" >ft</TT >) Driver with OS on RAID mirror</A ></DT ><DT >8.2. <A HREF="upgrading.html#CASE2" >Promise Technology (<TT CLASS="FILENAME" >ft</TT >) Driver with non-OS data on RAID mirror</A ></DT ><DT >8.3. <A HREF="upgrading.html#CASE3" >Linux Native (ataraid) Driver with OS on RAID mirror</A ></DT ><DT >8.4. <A HREF="upgrading.html#CASE4" >Linux Native (ataraid) Driver with non-OS data on RAID mirror</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >9. <A HREF="disable.html" >Disabling RAID feature on Promise FastTrack</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >9.1. <A HREF="disable.html#DISCASE1" >Case 1: OS not using RAID</A ></DT ><DT >9.2. <A HREF="disable.html#DISCASE2" >Case 2: OS is using RAID</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >10. <A HREF="tips.html" >Tips and Important Notes</A ></DT ><DT >11. <A HREF="moreinfo.html" >For more information</A ></DT ><DT >A. <A HREF="app1.html" >How is this document generated</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="intro.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >
