WD200 200gig HD for Dell Server

[Adil Kodian]

Do you have two SCSI RAID drives that are pre-existing ? Are you adding this
hard drive on the primary or secondary bus ? Are you adding it as master or
slave ?
prim master is /dev/hda slave /dev/hdb and so on.

now the RAID, do you have hardware RAID or software RAID ? Does RAID card
information show when it boots up ? (im assuming you have hardware RAID if
you dint set it up when installing RH9)

A simple technique is to put in the hard drive (after you move the jumpers
to 'cable select') then let linux boot up. login as root and use

fdisk /dev/hdX (where X is a,b,c,d depending on where this hd is on the IDE
bus)

in the fdisk screen press m for more information. create a new partition,
making it a primary partition and when you see the partition press 'w' to
write the partition back to the new disk.

once the partition is created, you need to 'format' it mkfs.reiserfs
/dev/hdX1 should format that section as a reiserfs partition.


then you need to mount this (not the otherway around as you mention). make a
new folder wherever you want space - like for eg /home/extra-storage

mount /dev/hdX1 /home/extra-storage

and thats all. you can now access your new disk

  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org]On Behalf Of James
Mendez
  Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 7:00 PM
  To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
  Subject: RE: [TLUG]: WD200 200gig HD for Dell Server


  Hello Adil
  I should have been more specific.
  I have a 200gig Western Digital (EDIE?) that I want to physically install
in to the Dell Server.
  Thats the easy part.
  The hard part is what do at the install level.
  I already have 2 Raid drives and I want this for more space.
  After Installing, I start up the system. In the configuration this is
where I get lost.....

  thanks
  James



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  From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Adil
Kodian
  Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 7:54 PM
  To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
  Subject: RE: [TLUG]: WD200 200gig HD for Dell Server


  by backup if you mean hw raid - then yeah - you have to set stuff up prior
to boot using bios.
  software raid, or even manual rsync like backup mechanisms dont need much
change. If your drive is recognized by bios then youre pretty much
guaranteed that it will work with linux.

  If its a PATA drive then it will simply appear as /dev/hda,b,c,d as the
case may be. you can then login as root, use fdisk to create partitions, use
mkfs to create a file system, use mount to mount it and then you can add the
entry to fstab for auto-mount. SATA or SCSI drives will simply be
/dev/sda,b,c,d. SCSI drives may require you to do more- but i guess youre
not looking at SCSI because you mentioned that it is a 200G hard drive.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org]On Behalf Of James
Mendez
    Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 5:35 PM
    To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
    Subject: [TLUG]: WD200 200gig HD for Dell Server


    Hello there

    I am looking for advise to install this drive as a backup unit to a Dell
Poweredge 1600SC server.
    The server runs on Redhat linux 9.
    I am looking for help on the following:
    The drive is brand new in a sealed case.
    When I attach the drive, Do I have to set up the configuration setup
before Linux runs
    Will I have to Mount the drive and format it

    thanks
    James
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