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>Linux Migration to Promise RAID Card HOWTO</TITLE
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
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TITLE="Introduction"
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CLASS="title"
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NAME="AEN2"
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>Linux Migration to Promise RAID Card HOWTO</H1
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CLASS="author"
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><A
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NAME="AEN4"
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>Benjamin Simkin</A
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CLASS="affiliation"
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CLASS="address"
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HREF="mailto:bensimkin (at) union.org.za"
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>bensimkin (at) union.org.za</A
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>2002-12-16<BR></P
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>Revision History</B
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>Revision 1.5</TD
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>2003-03-25</TD
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>Revised by: bs</TD
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>2002-12-16</TD
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>Changed URL for Promise website</TD
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>Revision 1.3</TD
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>2002-09-04</TD
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>Added Troubleshooting section</TD
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>2002-08-05</TD
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NAME="AEN32"
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> This document aims to outline the steps of how to migrate an existing
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(Red Hat) Linux install onto a Promise TX2 Card for the purposes of
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RAID-1 Mirroring. Although I am concentrating on Red Hat, the same
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principles may be applied to any other distribution.
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</P
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>Table of Contents</B
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>1. <A
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HREF="intro.html"
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>Introduction</A
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>1.1. <A
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HREF="intro.html#AEN37"
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>What?</A
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>1.2. <A
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HREF="intro.html#AEN40"
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>Why?</A
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>1.3. <A
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HREF="intro.html#AEN43"
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>How?</A
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>Copyright and License</A
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>Disclaimer</A
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>Contact the Author</A
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>Module Installation</A
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HREF="modinstall.html#AEN62"
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>What?</A
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>2.2. <A
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HREF="modinstall.html#AEN68"
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>How?</A
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>3. <A
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>Linux Configuration</A
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>What?</A
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>3.2. <A
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>How?</A
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>Array Configuration</A
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>Building the Array</A
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>Changing Configuration Files</A
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>Monitoring the Array</A
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>6. <A
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>Troubleshooting</A
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