SuSE 11.1 & Hardware Raid 0

[markyb]

Hey,

I'm in the process of building up a fileserver for production using SuSE 11.1.

There are 2x 160Gb SATA drivers configured in RAID1 (MCP55?) The machine is a HP MP115 G1.

I setup the RAID via the Nvidia setup before the machine booted (f8) and SuSE saw the hardware raid and installed without any issues. Its running well but a little concerned there is no indication of any of the drives/RAID failing.

Using Windows, Nvidia media sheild used to inform you that one of the drives were off-line or the raid was de-graded. After testing I only get this message if I reboot which is not practical.

Any advice?

 

[markyb]

BigglesPiP, Thanks for the reply.

- Would it be better for me to start again but this time using a software RAID using SuSE?
- Would I then be notified if one of the disks failed and went offline?

 

[markyb]

I just noticed your using RAID 0, you'll definately know when one of those disks goes offline or becomes degraded because you will lose the partition outright.

If you want redundancy dont use RAID 0, if you want speed and maximise space with no room for failure, use RAID 0.

Sorry my bad, I meant RAID1. Both drives are mirrored.