From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 8 10:22:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE9216A402 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 10:22:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: from heathrow.savoladns.com (heathrow.savoladns.com [212.12.174.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AAAD43D45 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 10:22:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: from ocs.savola.com (ocs.savola.com [222.22.1.211]) by heathrow.savoladns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF87D9585B for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 13:22:02 +0300 (AST) Received: from 222.22.1.191 by ocs.savola.com with ESMTP id 56969561147082991; Mon, 08 May 2006 13:09:51 +0300 From: Yousef Raffah To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-qCw+vpxCz720ZEEJM6cw" Organization: The Savola Group Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 13:21:09 +0300 Message-Id: <1147083669.1047.19.camel@localhost.savola.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Subject: Re: 6.0 RELEASE and Volume Managers X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: yraffah@savola.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 10:22:14 -0000 --=-qCw+vpxCz720ZEEJM6cw Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 10:18 +0100, Pete French wrote: > > OK, I found out that my array has been already set up as RAID 5, which > > is what I'm looking for. Do you think it is time now to configure the > > volumes or is there something else needs to be done before that? >=20 > If the array has been set up as RAID 5 then just go ahead and install > FreeBSD on it. I run a lot of machines like this, including a couple of > DL380's, and my home machine which has a COmpaq 5304 card plugged into > an MSI amd64 motherboard quite happily. >=20 OK great :) Thanks a lot for all those helped me. > I usually try and istall a small Windows2000 partition on the machine as = well > though, so that I can run the Compaq ACU code to manage the array. It can= be > done from the BIOS, but there are a lot more features in the actual > application. >=20 Might consider it for another server ;), thanks... > -pcf. -- Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at http://www.getfirefox.com --=-qCw+vpxCz720ZEEJM6cw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEXxuVH9IXMb4e6CMRAnt9AJsF1PzZjFcOy70K1OQDA2qpuWV4AQCgmwQx RsI/vpNxc1/ny6dEbZNuukc= =Lmp6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-qCw+vpxCz720ZEEJM6cw--