[PLUG] Heterogeneous RAID on a Compaq 1800R

[Wil Cooley]

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 11:18 -0800, Colin Kuskie wrote:
> I have a Compaq 1800R that I use to host my church's website.  It has
> a pair of 4.7 Gb drives with RAID 1 running in the hardware-based RAID
> hot-swappable drive bay.
> 
> Through two very generous donations, I've gotten a pair of 9 Gb and
> 18Gb drives.  I'd love to be able to use all 4 drives in the same
> configuration that I currently have, with RAID 1 across the drives
> for a total of 27 Gb.  And maybe have the extra 4.7 Gb to house
> /tmp and the swap space.
> 
> Is that even possible?  I've been Googling for things like
> 
> Compaq RAID heterogeneous
> 
> but so far I've only found things for more recent SAN and NAS
> solutions.

If you use software RAID it is possible, because it just uses
partitions.  It's very unlikely to work with hardware RAID, because the
controllers usually want control over the whole disk.

Wil
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Wil Cooley                                 wcooley at nakedape.cc
Naked Ape Consulting                        http://nakedape.cc

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