Topic: I can't get SME to RAID5 with three disk upon install.

[cljunkie]

Configuration:

400 MHz Celeron
384M RAM
Adaptec controller
Three 72G hard drives.

Work environment:
Newspaper Production


Goal:

Increase hard drive space and performance by adding a 3rd hard drive. Did have two SCSI drives mirrored as RAID1 and wanted to have RAID5.

Steps:

I backed up the server with rsync the directories required to be copied back (Found this infomration in a different thread) because of the limitations of the included backup program. Ugly, not proud or happy , but I managed it in the first try.

Problem:

SME fresh install and formated the drives. Resulting install never creates RAID5 with all three drives. Only RAID1 over all three drives (!?!).

Question:

Why won't SME installer set up RAID 5? All drives are same make, model and size.

[byte]

Problem:

SME fresh install and formated the drives. Resulting install never creates RAID5 with all three drives. Only RAID1 over all three drives (!?!).

If SME Server doesn't work out of the box then you may have a potential bug so best place would have been to report to bug tracker.

Question:

Why won't SME installer set up RAID 5? All drives are same make, model and size.

The answer lie's in the bug tracker...

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2015