Re: hardware RAID boot

2001-06-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi matthew... 3ware stuff is mostly raid0/raid1... - they supposed to have a raid5 controller too ...but... havent tested it to boot from those scsi drives.. you'd need to use an initrd.gz file in your lilo.conf file... ( no different than if it was a regular scsi disk ( non-raid ) after you ge

hardware RAID boot

2001-06-15 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi all, Does anyone know whether the 3ware escalade raid drivers are bootable? I.e do I have to have a seperate non-raid drive on which to put the kernel. I'm thinking that I shouldn't have to because the raid array appears to linux as a SCSI drive, but the BIOS would also have to support it would