Hard disk issues

[Wayne Steenburg]

A little clarification for question 2:
> > My questions:
> > 1. How do I mount the second hard drive to create one continuous volume 
> > available
> > to the user space?
> > 
> > 2. Is it possible to mix SATA and EIDE? I would like to install a third 
> > 250Gb EIDE drive
> > in the last available bay.
> > 
> > 3. Does the output of SMARTD look ok or does it suggest a problem with one 
> > of the drives?
> > 
> > Thank you very much for any suggestion you can offer me.
> > 
> > Gabriel.
> > 
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> 
> My answers:
> 1. Logical Volume Management (LVM) would allow you to do this. Another
> option would be a RAID card with JBOD (Just a Bunch of Discs) support.
> Use 3ware if you want to be able to boot from the volume. It's the only
> manufacturer that I'm aware of with true hardware RAID.
> 
> 2. Yes. You can mix SATA and EIDE within a system.  You can also use 
different interfaces for LVM. For a RAID card it depends on the manufacturer,
although I'm pretty sure you could use a SATA RAID card with a SATA to IDE 
converter on one or more drives.

> 
> 3. To my untrained eye it appears that you have a problem. (Sorry I'm
> not more of a help on this one.)
> 
> Wayne Steenburg
>