<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Tips and Important Notes</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux ATA RAID HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Disabling RAID feature on Promise FastTrack" HREF="disable.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="For more information" HREF="moreinfo.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Linux ATA RAID HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="disable.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="moreinfo.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="TIPS">10. Tips and Important Notes</H1 ><P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >Dont bother using KDE / GNOME or any other X window system to finish RAID installation as explained above. Use simple text terminal.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >You can press <B CLASS="KEYCAP" >Cntrl-ALT-Fj</B > to switch to <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >ttyj</TT > where <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >j=1,2,..6</TT ></P ></LI ><LI ><P >If you do start KDE/GNOME or any other X window system, it will run on <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >tty7</TT >, which you can access by pressing <B CLASS="KEYCAP" >Cntrl-ALT-F7</B ></P ></LI ><LI ><P >If you decide to use Promise supplied SCSI emulation driver for FastTrack RAID, note that you are stuck at the default kernel version 2.4.7-10. Because, no source code for FastTrack is available.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >During RH 7.2 installation, choose ext3 and swap file types only.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >When you remove Promise SCSI emulation and setup Native Linux RAID, linux lets you access the hard disks either by mirror name: <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >d0</TT > or individual disks themselves: <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >hde2</TT >, <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >hdg3</TT > etc. It is very important that: YOU NEVER access the hard disks directly by their name, instead access the corresponding mirror partition. Example: Use <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/dev/ataraid/d0p3</TT > instead of <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/dev/hde3</TT > or <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/dev/hdg3</TT ></P ></LI ></UL ></P ></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" ><A HREF="disable.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="moreinfo.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Disabling RAID feature on Promise FastTrack</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >For more information</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >