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Title: All HDD-s working?
Post by: Sander on August 29, 2001, 03:09:12 AM

Is there any way to tell if all my hard drives are working?

I have three identical SCSI drives. All are 2 GB.

What kind of installation should i choose to make all the drives working and i can download data ro them?
Raid-1 hardware mirroring or Raid-2 Software mirroring.

Once I tried to install raid-2 to a computer what had 500 MB and 800 MB IDE drives and the box told me that program terminated abnormally. So i had to continnue with Raid-1 hardware mirroring.

Is there a way to shere the CD so I can install programs from the servers CD-Rom drive. My own drive rejects some CD-s so this information is very important to me.

I have E-smnith 4.1.1

Thank You for Your Help

Sander

Title: Re: All HDD-s working?
Post by: Dan Brown on August 29, 2001, 03:33:32 AM

If you have a supported SCSI RAID controller, and have set up some sort of array (probably a RAID 5) with all three drives, e-smith will treat them as a single drive, and you'll need to use whatever maintenance utility came with the RAID controller to determine what drives are in use.  If you don't have such a controller, e-smith will allow you to create a software RAID 1 (mirrored) array with two of the drives, but the third would not be used.