[X-Unix] Hardware RAID Setup

[Alexandre Gauthier]

Le 2010-05-13 08:39, Martin McCormick a écrit :
> It looks like everything worked. All that was needed was to tell
> disk utility to "erase" the disks in the raid. It apparently did
> newfs or mkfs afterward and created the new disk device. I did
> make the mistake of manually mounting it and guess what, the
> installer didn't see this as a valid drive any longer since it
> was mounted so I restarted the system again from the
> Installation disk and this time the installer saw the new drive
> andsuccessfully installed MacOS.
>
> 	Thanks to all for the suggestions. I didn't know how
> close I was to success. The next few days will tell whether the
> raid is working as it should but all indications are that it is
> fine.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
> Systems Engineer
> OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group
>
>    
I am still curious as to if these manipulations create a software raid 
array through OS X, or if that somehow hooks in the hardware and does it 
there...

Can anyone shed some light on this?

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Alexandre Gauthier
Network Analyst / Analyste Réseau
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