[rescue] Throw me a bone please

[Michael A. Turner]

Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org


> 
> you are low level formatting your drives ?  Why ! ?  Unless 
> they have an
> odd hardware format due to being out of special hardware, you 
> should never
> have to format a SCSI disk.  

 <Sheepish Grin> Cause I hit go while mucking around in the format command
and started it and now I cannot stop it.

> 
> If you want software RAID then you use DiskSuite.  If your 
> SCSI card or
> the StorEdge supports hardware RAID, then you need to use the 
> software for
> those devices to setup your RAID.

	No hardware raid that I can find. Which caught my a bit off guard
cause I though the storeedge would be raid, but looking back on it that was
an assumption by me.

> 
> Sounds to me like your card/StorEdge are JBOD (Just a Bunch 
> of Disks). 

	I believe so also.

> If that is the case, DiskSuite will allow you to setup software 
> RAID 5, or
> RAID 0+1, etc.  If you have a graphical console, DiskSuite has a nice
> GUI interface (although have they integrated this into the new Java
> based entire system admin tool (which I'm blanking on the 
> name since I've
> never used it)).

	Ah, this I will have to look at. 

> 
> DiskSuite (at least in Solaris 8) is on one of the discs (can't recall
> which).  It may or not be still in the early access ("EA") directory.
> It has been a while since I installed DiskSuite from CD.  The 
> majoriting
> of systems I've setup are done via jumpstart, and all 
> packages, etc are
> handled by the jumpstart config.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
>   -- Curt

	Thanks for the help!
	

	- Mike