Re: [tlug] White Box: Some Assembly Required ...

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

Okay, here's the latest ...

By connecting four of the six disks I wanted to create a RAID from, I 
was able to build one RAID 5 device of 9Tb.  The two remaining 
motherboard slots went to the 120Gb SSD and the CD/DVD so I can see the 
red HDD read/write LED.  I was tempted to connect all six HDDs to the 
motherboard as the setup screen seems to contradict the manual on the 
number of HDDs permitted.  Has anyone successfully gotten away with 
installing more then the reportedly permitted number of HDDs on a 
hardware RAID installation?

The other four disks are connected to the add-in card and all are 
visible.  I didn't have to make the adjustments suggested.  The only 
issues are:

1. only two of the disks on the add-in card are the same spec and RAID 5 
needs a minimum of three so those four disks will be plain vanilla HDDs 
for now.  See question about pushing luck above.

2. The hardware RAID chip can only work with disks connected directly to 
the motherboard so any new configuration would have to be software due 
to lack of sufficient slots.

BUT ... there's always one of these ...

The RAID cannot be seen in Lubuntu.  Two of the member disks show up in 
the drive list but not the RAID.

Trying mdamd to see the disk didn't work.

Since I am at the beginning of everything and it wouldn't take a lot of 
time, is the best solution a reinstall of Lubuntu, creating an LVM in 
the process?  Current install is very basic.

CL