Linux DPT Hardware RAID HOWTO

Ram Samudrala (me@ram.org)

1. Introduction

2. Supported controllers

3. What hardware should be used?

4. Installation

• 4.1 Installing and configuring the hardware
• 4.2 Configuring the kernel

5. Usage

• 5.1 fdisk, mke2fs, mount, etc.
• 5.2 Hotswapping
• 5.3 Performance

6. Features in the DPT RAID driver

7. Troubleshooting

• 7.1 Upon bootup, no SCSI hosts are detected
• 7.2 RAID configuration shows up as N different disks
• 7.3 If all fails...

8. References

9. Acknowledgements