[ale] Dell Perc RAID Controller

Brandon Colbert colbert.brandon at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 20:30:58 EDT 2009


Our OS and apps are running on the system now, and we added new drives that
we need to configure for RAID. I know that this can be done with 3ware
controllers.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com>wrote:

> On Tue September 15 2009, Brandon Colbert wrote:
> > Is there a command line utility that I can use to configure RAID in
> Linux.
> > I really don't want to reboot the server to do it.
> >
> > I have a Perc 5i controller. Last I heard that it was not one available
> in
> > Linux.
>
> I used to install red hat on servers with Perc 5 controllers. They would
> configure Raid via the Bios, then I would load redhat, pointing it
> to /dev/hda ( sda..) for partitioning. maybe we are talking hardware vs
> software raid, unfortunately I'm not a raid guru :)
>
> --
> Paul Cartwright
> Registered Linux user # 367800
> Registered Ubuntu User #12459
>
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