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TrixBox RAID Tutorial

majamer
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2007-08-29
Submitted by majamer on Thu, 10/18/2007 - 2:17pm.

Hello,

What's the most important attribute of a computer-based PBX? If a drive or power supply fails, the business doesn't stay paralyzed until the problem is fixed. However, it seems to me that the TrxiBox RAID setup is not very well documented (apart from few unclear posts). It's very unpleasant when you set up TrixBox on a hardware RAID and find out that TrixBox detected the individual drives instead of the mirror. So my question is: would it possible to make a tutroial about RAID setup in TrixBox?

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Thank you in advance,
Martha Amer


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kerryg
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2006-05-31
For software raid, type
Thu, 10/18/2007 - 2:39pm

For software raid, type sata-raid at the install prompt
For hardware raid, go into the BIOS of the RAID card and configure the RAID setup

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majamer
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2007-08-29
The problem is that the two
Thu, 10/18/2007 - 10:43pm

The problem is that the two drives were configured as RAID 1 in the hardware BIOS but TrixBox saw them as two separate drives. I install Windows Server on exatcly the same hardware and the OS detected the drives as one drive, so I'm wondering if there's anything involved in this setup. Is it possible to run sata-raid after the OS is already installed?

Current Setup:
Mounted Filesystems
Mount Type Partition Percent Capacity Free Used Size
/ ext3 /dev/sdb1 1% (1%) 137.56 GB 1.69 GB 146.71 GB
/boot ext3 /dev/sda1 9% (1%) 85.04 MB 8.58 MB 98.72 MB
/dev/shm tmpfs none 0% (1%) 505.75 MB 0.00 KB 505.75 MB
Totals : 1% 138.14 GB 1.70 GB 147.30 GB

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Thank you in advance,
Martha Amer


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piri
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2007-02-08
how do you setuo soft raid
Fri, 10/19/2007 - 10:26am

how do you setuo soft raid if yoy are using a ide drive


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majamer
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2007-08-29
Both drives are identical
Fri, 10/19/2007 - 1:03pm

Both drives are identical SATA drives connected to a SATA controller and istalled as RAID 1 mirror in hardware. I'm definitely sure they're not IDE drives and there are no IDE drives installed in the server.

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Thank you in advance,
Martha Amer


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piri
Posts: 202
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2007-02-08
Hi I was asking a question
Fri, 10/19/2007 - 5:03pm

Hi I was asking a question not commenting on anything,

Let me reword my question

I have a TrxiBox with two IDE Drives, can anyone tell me how to install software raid ?

Cheers

Piri


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andrew
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2006-05-30
answers to a few questions
Fri, 10/19/2007 - 7:38pm

How to install Software RAID on IDE?
There are very few systems supporting IDE anymore so we do not support this. It you want to do it used the advanced option and partition the disks yourself.

I have a cheap motherboard that has "hardware RAID" it works under windows but not Linux. This is "fake RAID" all the RAID is done in software under in the windows driver. Use linux software RAID your will get the same preformance or buy a real raid controller.


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viamatica
Posts: 5
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2007-09-20
why not use "advanced" at
Sat, 10/20/2007 - 4:40am

why not use "advanced" at the boot prompt when installing trixbox?

I have done a RAID configuration in this mode; I think it is correct


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