Newb Question - Hardware RAID1 with Fileserver appliance

Hello,

I am trying to configure a simple home NAS. I installed the TKL fileserver appliance on a system with the following drives:

1 x IDE 30gig (TKL installed)

2 x 500gb SATAII

The SATA drives are connected to a PCI Sata CARD. I have configured the two drives, via the card bios, into a RAID1 setup.

My questions are:

1) Can Linux normally see the hardware RAID1 array? When executing lshw -C disk I see both drives seperatly. Do I have to use software RAID?

2) Has anyone gone through the processes of adding additional drives to the fileserver appliance and documented it? If so can I see the docs?

Any help would be appreciated. I am trying my hardest to learn to use linux for this project. I am still cloudy with mounting drives.

Thanks in advance.

Ian

Replies (3)

Why do you need NTFS?

Reply 1 2011-08-09

Is this machine going to be dual boot (ie be able to boot into Windows as well as TKL)? Otherwise if you only plan to connect to it via SMB (Samba/Windows file shares) then the filesystem format is irrelevant.

I currently run a fileserver which uses the native default Linux FS (ext4) and WIndows guests connect fine to the shares.

Filesystem?

Reply 2 2011-08-09

Interesting. I am learning a lot here. Thank you for the link and your time. I appreciate your help.

When I go to create the filesystem on my new raid (/dev/md0) I am not given an option for NTFS. I need to set this raid up on Samba shared to Windows machines? Did you have a situation like this at the Non-profit?

Hi Rick, This is the card I

Reply 3 2011-08-08

Hi Rick, This is the card I am using: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124003 I am going to try and go software raid in web,in like you said. Linux appears to be seeing these drives as individual Sata ports so it may be a windows based card like you said.