<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Linux Migration to Promise RAID Card HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><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" ></A >Linux Migration to Promise RAID Card HOWTO</H1 ><H3 CLASS="author" ><A NAME="AEN4" >Benjamin Simkin</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="affiliation" ><DIV CLASS="address" ><P CLASS="address" ><TT CLASS="email" ><<A HREF="mailto:bensimkin (at) union.org.za" >bensimkin (at) union.org.za</A >></TT ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><P CLASS="pubdate" >2002-12-16<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 1.5</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2003-03-25</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: bs</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.4</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-12-16</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: bs</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Changed URL for Promise website</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.3</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-09-04</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: bs</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Added Troubleshooting section</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-08-05</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: bs</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="abstract" ><A NAME="AEN32" ></A ><P ></P ><P > This document aims to outline the steps of how to migrate an existing (Red Hat) Linux install onto a Promise TX2 Card for the purposes of RAID-1 Mirroring. Although I am concentrating on Red Hat, the same principles may be applied to any other distribution. </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#AEN37" >What?</A ></DT ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="intro.html#AEN40" >Why?</A ></DT ><DT >1.3. <A HREF="intro.html#AEN43" >How?</A ></DT ><DT >1.4. <A HREF="intro.html#copyright" >Copyright and License</A ></DT ><DT >1.5. <A HREF="intro.html#disclaimer" >Disclaimer</A ></DT ><DT >1.6. <A HREF="intro.html#contact" >Contact the Author</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="modinstall.html" >Module Installation</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >2.1. <A HREF="modinstall.html#AEN62" >What?</A ></DT ><DT >2.2. <A HREF="modinstall.html#AEN68" >How?</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3. <A HREF="linuxconf.html" >Linux Configuration</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="linuxconf.html#AEN114" >What?</A ></DT ><DT >3.2. <A HREF="linuxconf.html#AEN117" >How?</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4. <A HREF="arrayconf.html" >Array Configuration</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >4.1. <A HREF="arrayconf.html#AEN133" >Building the Array</A ></DT ><DT >4.2. <A HREF="arrayconf.html#AEN137" >Changing Configuration Files</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >5. <A HREF="x168.html" >Monitoring the Array</A ></DT ><DT >6. <A HREF="x175.html" >Troubleshooting</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 >