[Gslug-general] Adaptec 5805 RAID Issue

[Jeremiah T. Gray]

Was I looking for RAID-1?  I think I was.


On Aug 11, 2008, at 5:58 PM, Andrew Sweger wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Jeremiah T. Gray wrote:
>
>> There are 8 drives in it; two are RAID 5 and 6 are RAID 0; it is
>> indeed a large scratch space for the RAID 0 drives.  Adaptec said I
>> had to use their drivers but they don't apparently have an Ubuntu
>> version in this scenario.  I installed Ubuntu with the Ubuntu Server
>> 64-bit version of 8.04 and configured it with default settings.  Yes,
>> this is SATA not SAS.
>
> Would anyone care to explain to me how one goes about configuring a  
> RAID-5
> array with two spindles? I was pretty sure it requires at least  
> three. ;)
>
> -- 
> Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several
>                                 things can go wrong at once.
>