[lug] Raid on a Compaq DL380

[Peter Hutnick]

Erick Bodine said:
> All,
>
> I have inherited administration of a RH7.3 system on a Compaq DL380.
> There is about 15G of unpartitioned space on the SCSI drive that I
> would like to make use of.  Unfortunately, fdisk & sfdisk do not
> recognize the device /dev/ida.  The device name ida is itself
> confusing, I was under the impression that HD device names were
> prefixed w/ either h,s,or x. The other confusing thing is that there
> is only a single disk in the system yet the RAID array controller
> thinks that the configuration is RAID 0.  Something that I thought was
> not possible with only one disk.

That device node is specific to the Compaq RAID controller.

I've never used that particular controller, but it makes sense to
configure a single disk on a RAID controller as a RAID 0 to allow for
future expansion.

I found this:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/compaq-howto-5-jan.html

Looks like you have to do some device-specific stuff for this controller. 
Not sure if you need a special fdisk or just a special device.

-Peter