I am in the process of setting up a new Debian 5.0 Lenny based VMware 2.0 server and will follow your most excellent tutorial, however.... Have had no end of trouble trying to install RAID 1 [Mirroring] with two 120Gb SATA HDD on a motherboard with the Promise PDC20378 RAID Controller chip. There is some reference to RAID 10 on an older version of Ubuntu but I am unsure how to modify this to my requirements. Am assuming that although Linux RAID is called Fakeraid, you still connect your array of drives to the onboard RAID connection [in my case SATA_RAID1 and SATA_RAID2] as you do for Windows? I also assume that the RAID array has to be set up early in the installation of Debian minimal install as per your tutorial. Can you assist with a short Tutorial please?
I've written these two tutorials... http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-grub-boot-debian-etch http://www.howtoforge.com/set-up-raid1-on-a-running-lvm-system-debian-etch ... however, they are for software RAID, not hardware RAID.
Thanks for your reply.... I am assuming that I do not connect my SATA HDD to the two RAID outlets on my motherboard and instead simply connect to the two normal SATA connections? The reason I ask is because when setting up RAID in Windows, I have to install drivers to make it work and just assumed that Linux would do something similar? I confess that all this is terribly confusing - do I need to look for Linux Promise RAID drivers?
I don't have any experience with hardware RAID - I'm always using software RAID, so I can't tell anything about drivers... If you want to use software RAID, connect the drives to the normal SATA connections.
