Typically the mirror has to be setup before you start using the drives. I have heard of some raid controllers creating non-destructive mirrors from an existing hard drive though. I dont know how this raid controller handles it though. I also have one of the 1750 servers with debian on it. Its our mail server with 3x36gb drives in raid5. At the time I installed it, it was kind of a pain. I had to make a custom net install cd to support the raid controller and the onboard ethernet, which i think was broadcom, but I dont recall exactly. Tim Wilson wrote: >Hey everyone, > >I've just purchased a Dell PowerEdge 1750 server to run RequestTracker on >here at work. We bought the RAID controller, but don't intend to use it >quite yet. > >I don't have much experience with RAID and I'm wondering if it's possible to >install Linux (probably Debian) on the system in such a way that plugging >another drive in later would "just work." We're probably going to just do >mirroring if or when we plug in another drive. > >-Tim > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list