Topic: Multiple HD ibay config

[SailAway]

Just received a hand me down IBM 320 PC Server with 4- 2GB SCSI drives chained on a single Adaptec 2940U card. I have searched the e-smith threads and there was mention of setting up drives to mount in the ibay folder [Sasha Malic 10/7/00]. The problem is, I'm a newbie to Linux and need a simple step by step instructions to allow me to use 1- 2GB drive as the main boot/system drive and the other 3-2GB drives as ibay drives for three specific groups (backup1, backup2, and backup3). I want to set each drive to be available under one ibay group each [...ibays/backup1/miscfiles...]. This will allow me to manage permissions through the manager for each ibay (drive). Can someone give a simple list of instructions. Thanks.

[Tim Chipman]

are hard links an option? ie, as root on the e-smith machine,

-move the content of (bay2) to (hd2)
-use "ln /real/path/ /old/path" to setup a pointer from old->new?

I don't suppose we have RAID array support for volume spanning at this point ?

I guess it would be asking too much ..


Tim

[SailAway]

>are hard links an option? ie, as root on the e-smith machine,
Yes, if you can give a little more detail to a newbie.

>-move the content of (bay2) to (hd2)
>-use "ln /real/path/ /old/path" to setup a pointer from old->new?
Can you give a little more information? How??? I want to try.

>I don't suppose we have RAID array support for volume spanning at this point ?
I just figured out how to setup a sofware raid, but I reformated the drives as I need all the space I can get for data storage to be used as backup volumes.

>I guess it would be asking too much ..
I'm a newbie trying to learn. Weren't you one once???