Re: x346 Raid Configuration

On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:51:32 -0500
sjk <[email protected]> wrote:

> My recollection is that, for the x346, you have to boot off the IBM
> RAID configurator/utility disk to set up the RAID sets you desire.
> Once you do that the logical volume(s) will appear for install.
> 
> On 08/09/2011 09:35 AM, Craig Van Tassle wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 09:01:05 -0500
> > Samir Faci <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> >> I think if you're doing a hardware raid you need to boot into the
> >> raid utility to manage
> >> that.  If you're doing software raid, then standard mdadm changes
> >> would work fine
> >>  (depending on what you're trying to do ).
> >>
> >> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Craig Van Tassle
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> I'm trying to configure the RAID on my x346 with out having to
> >>> boot to the IBM service CD. Does anyone know how to do that. I'm
> >>> running Ubuntu linux.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
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> > 
> > I would think that would be the case.. but there is no way to
> > configure it via the mini-configuration utility.
> 

That is what I thought. Do you know of any utility to monitor the
health of the RAID array once I've got it installed?

Thankfully work has a nice BIG pipe to let me download the image.
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