I setup software RAID on a machine here at work a while back and it was
reasonably easy.
First thing you should look at is:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html and specifically
"Booting on RAID"
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.3
Use the "mdadm" tools, "apt-get install mdadm" will install them.
Apparently they're much better than the old RAID tools Linux had.
Via Google:
http://kb.indiana.edu/data/agnn.html?cust=627053.87307.30http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/37539/
HTH,
Donncha.
adam beecher wrote:
> I want to RAID mirror my primary partition (IDE device A partition 3) to
> another drive, what do I need to do? Very little experience with RAID. This
> is my hardware setup.
>> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
>> What's "pio", an empty slot?
>
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