[lug] RAID installation on Fedora 6 Zod

[Hugh Brown]

steve at badcheese.com wrote:
> If Linux sees the card, then it'll just look like a SCSI disk to the OS 
> and you do all of your config either in the BIOS or there might be a 
> utility with the linux driver.
> 
> LSI has some good RAID controllers and you can use the linux "megamgr" 
> suite to control the controller from within linux, but most of them will 
> just have you do the RAID manipulation in the BIOS.
> 
> - Steve
> 


I learned the hard way that some of the PCI cards are still fakeraid 
devices (the driver has all the brains).  If you are putting lots of 
disk in, be sure your power supply is sufficient and that your air flow 
is good.

Hugh