From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ewan Grantham Subject: Preparation advice? Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:52:51 -0500 Message-ID: <6d5bedd8041126205255c0fe7d@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Ewan Grantham Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linux RAID Mailing List List-Id: linux-raid.ids Am about to venture into the MD world. I have 4 250-Gig HDs, 1 on IDE1, 1 on IDE2, 1 on the internal firewire port, 1 on a PCI Firewire card. So I think I have my failure points reasonably spread :-) Since two of these are external drives, any special considerations? I am running a Debian from a Knoppix 3.6 HD Install with a 2.4.27 kernel. I just updated the mdadm package using synaptic to 1.7, which I assume is the best version to run. My OS/Boot Disk is seperate, so I don't have to worry about that, but would like to have the array come up when the system does. Pointers to FAQs on any of this would also be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Ewan