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Installation issues / Re: Hardware raid in Core - How to make it available to the Core?

« on: January 03, 2009, 03:17:10 am »

Ok all is fine now
I partioned the drive with partedmagic and reinstalled Linuxmce - during the Video setup part the drive was found and I am now able to use it. Thanks for all your help.

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Installation issues / Re: Hardware raid in Core - How to make it available to the Core?

« on: January 03, 2009, 02:36:05 am »

Thanks for all the info - I did not partition the drive as i thought that LinuxMce would take care of that from the web admin (Guess i got spoiled by Freenas)
Ok I will check the tree structure.
Just in case I will reinstall everthing again to make sure that playing around with the software raid option didnt mess things up. I will return after I get things going again.

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Installation issues / Re: Hardware raid in Core - How to make it available to the Core?

« on: January 02, 2009, 07:22:25 pm »

The card is a Adaptec CERC SATA1.5/6ch made for DELL.
Here is the manual :


http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cat=sup&cs=04&k=Adaptec+CERC+SATA1.5%2f6ch&rpp=12&p=1&subcat=ddc&rf=all&nk=f&sort=K&ira=False&~srd=False&ipsys=False&advsrch=False&~ck=anav


I used it before on a PCLINUX OS, Mandriva , Ubuntu and a Freenas system .


Like I said before - when I go into the Webadmin->advanced->Raid
I can see the Raid drive (/dev/sdd1) and I can add it to a raid partition but I just want to add it as a drive for the meidai folder (Public) so I can store my ripped DVDs on it.  So definately the adaptec controller is working fine but I just dont know how to add the drive tot he system.
I read today That i need to farmat it maually - if so I will give it a try toight.

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Installation issues / Re: Hardware raid in Core - How to make it available to the Core?

« on: January 02, 2009, 06:41:17 pm »

All Thanks for the replies

The raid is a hardware adaptec card that supports 6 sata drives and includes 64MB onboard RAM.
When I go into Kbuntu file explorere I only see the two scsi drives but no raid drive.  I can see all drives and I have been successful at creating a software Raid  out of all the drives.
Also it seams that the drive gets assigned to the proper device (dev/sdd1 in my case).
Maybe I need to format the drive to get it detected (I havent done that yet)?
There must be a better way of adding storeage?  Maybe I am not looking at this the right way - should the file explorer see the raid drive ? Will it be added to the media folder automatically ?

Thanks for the help.

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Installation issues / Hardware raid in Core - How to make it available to the Core?

« on: January 02, 2009, 01:57:02 pm »

Hi  I am ne to Linuxmce and I tried searching this forum and googling but could not find the proper answer.
I  have setup a core system out of a IBM workstation. This computer was previiously used as a NAS and worked fine but I wanted to tap into its potetial and expand to linuxMCE. I have a hardware raid setup and a few scsi HDDs. The install goes smooth and I install the core on on eof the scsi 15K drives. I have 2 other scsi drives and a 1.7TB raid array.
How do I make the raid array seen to the core - I want my media to go to  that drive?  saw that I can make a Software raid array out off my 2 scsi drives and the hardware raid but that only complicates things more if there is a disc failure.

Can anyone help me with making my hardware raid avaialble to the system?