Yuyo

Well, first problem is that the server is not an MDK distro. It's an E-Smith distro. It's a one CD Distro so chances are that whatever I might need will not be available without downloading of many packages and many dependencies...!!

 

And yeah, i did mean IDE RAID.

 

What makes Hardware RAID better than software RAID...?

The 3ware support is built into the standard kernel. Therefore, it is available irrespective of what distro you choose to use.

Hardware Raid cards have their own logic chips to do the calculations. For instance, when you are doing XOR parity calculations in RAID 5, this matters.

You can also move hds between systems when using hardware raid, which you may or may not be able to do in software raid, depending on how you set it up. Hardware Raid also includes some very nice monitoring utilities, such as the ability to be emailed if one of the hard drives goes down, automatic rebuilds, etc.

Look into it.

I want to run 2 80 Gig drives in a raid configuration. 

Hardware raid is an option. Would it be better to go for hardware raid if I've got the option or will software raid work just as well.

Also I've never encountered a raid machine in my life so I know nothing about it except the principles behind it.

How easy is it to set up for one.

Do you need to download special software or does linux natively support it.

 

Many many questions Can someone help...?

I suppose you are talking IDE Raid not SCSI.

3ware support is built into the kernel. When you are loading Mandrake, simply click yes when asked if you have additional SCSI controllers, that's how the OS sees 3ware cards, and click on the driver for the 3ware card. Prior to this, you should have created your RAID array in the 3ware bios, of course.

Best of luck.

Of course, if you are so inclined you can go for Software raid, but I much prefer a hardware raid if it is at all possible.

Listen, I'm not saying that the threat isn't potentially serious, but there has been a lot of active resistance to the implementation of this technology. Now that Congress has switched sides, it won't be as easy to have it mandated, and there are still economic forces to contend with...

Congress will not interfere in any way with the desires of Microsoft. I remind you it was the present administration, which now controls both houses, that allowed Microsoft to walk away without bearing any form of serious punishment. The settlement is a joke.

Against this backdrop, I am not very reassured that Congress will stand in the way of Intel et al as they shove Palladium/TCPA down our throats. When they do, kiss Linux goodbye. If you think this is a hasty conclusion, do a quick google and read Prof. Anderson's TCPA FAQs.

Do you know one of the laptop/notbook got already Fritz chips build in begin last year about bet. april & may.

 

Ciao MD-user

Yeap, IBM has been doing it for quite some time.

That's because it's configurable. it starts at 329. the base specs can be found here. http://www.idot.com/TheStore/Desktop/770Sp...=770&Cate.id=19

 

Also a question about the topic "Not Crazy about Lindows, but this is COOL!" If you're not crazy about windows then why were you on the website. If you like the distro just say so, it's not wrong just because it's the popular opinion. I personally, hate Lindows on purely philosophical grounds. I've never used and this hate is pretty much unfounded, but hey, that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it. If someone .gave me a copy of lindows I'd use it and maybe even like it (I'm sure there must be some way to set up an unpriveledged user account). i'm just saying that don't say you don't like something just because it's fashionable to say so. Do so because you have valid (in your mind) plausible, bigotted reasons for doing so. Ok, I'm finished ranting now. BTW I hate Microsoft but I love Bill Gates.  How can you not admire such a ruthless businessman, shitty, bug and spyware ridden (but easy and enjoyable to use) software or no.

Wow, calm down!

Breath a little. Ok, now.

I have never used Lindows. Debian, Mandrake and Red Hat are the only distros that I have tried and know.

What is cool about the above pc? It gets around the "legal" issues of playing dvds by having the playaback code in eprom that boots instantly. This is a first in the Linux world.

If I were giving my father a computer, this would be great. Look you don't have to wait for it to boot to play music or DVDs.

Since the DVD playback, as I understand is in the eprom, you should be able to replace Lindows with whatever distribution tickles your fancy and retain playback functionality.

My old grandpa once told me to not jump to conclusions easily. Good advice that was. I'll pass it on to you for free, so you can share it with others. You may even modify it, but if you improve on it, be sure to let those you care about know.

Take care

A Linux media PC. Yes!

http://info.lindows.com/lmc/

A number of people here do not recognize the seriousness and the implications of TCPA/Palladium. Both Intel and AMD have committed to including the Fritz chip in the main processor. Please do read abou this. I have discussed it at length in the thread below and I suggest, humbly, that you give it a read.

You'll be glad you did.

http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic....&highlight=rape

You would need to ask Mandrakesoft why things that once worked, stopped in a subsequent release.  You may not regret the extra time since you will avoid anything else that is broken.  If they manage to survive, then I would wait untill 9.1 is released in April before upgrading too much.  FWIW, problems have been reported in the past with both the Western Digital drives and Promise controllers but it  would seem that these are not universal depending on particular hardware configurations.

 

Counterpsy

Thanks for replying. Well, my promise controller was included with the drives themselves, so I assume WD would have taken the time to make sure that it works as it is included with their drives. .I upgraded the firmware for the controller and both RedHat and Windows NT 4.0 server can use it without issues.

Mandrake 8.2 sees both drives and allows you to create a Raid Mirror, but doesn't allow you to assign a partition mout point to them, such as /home or /var. This makes Mandrake 8.2, the only version which sees the two drives attached to the controller, useless for the task at hand: a home file server. The more I use RedHat, the more I realize that it is harder to get it to do some things than Mandrake, but what it does do, it does it very well

I have helped many on the road to Linux before and now I find myself puzzled by a messed-up catch 22.

Red Hat 8.0 installs beautifully, looks great and creates a working RAID 1 array, but refuses to serve the files over Samba. If there is something silly that I am doing or failing to do, please enlighten me. The samba clients have been added to the Redhat machine samba groups with smbpasswd –a username.

Still no go. Very weird indeed.

Since file sharing works flawlessly between my Mandrake 9.0 Laptop and my Win2K desktop at work, I decided to copy over my working smb.conf from my laptop installation of Mandrake 9.0 and made changes to it, such as the computer name and workgroup name, etc.

The Home user directories NOW work some of the time, but you can only log if the username you have matches the username of the home directory you are trying to access, i.e., you can’t map drives to a share by providing a different user name in W2K.

On a side note, I have also noted that RedHat 8.0 is a lot slower than both Mandrake 8.2 and Windows N.T 4.0 on the machine I am using, which I never expected it.

All of it, very strange.

In Summary,

*Mandrake detects drives on 8.2 but not on 9.0.

*Mandrake 8.2 creates a useless Raid Array, since it doesn’t allow you to designate mount points.

*Red Hat installs perfectly, but makes sharing files, at least so far, next to impossible.

*NT works out of the box, even the software Raid. This is pretty sad, as NT 4.0 is now more than 5 years old.

I would rather not use it, but if there is no way around this, then I can’t spend more time on something that should be very trivial. Of course, I could buy a 3ware card, but I don’t have the money to do so now and there is no absolute guarantee that this would solve the problem.

I really like Mandrake's configuration tools, but it seems that it will either have to be Win NT for now or Red Hat, if I can get it to share files.

In case somebody can clarify the mistery, I went and tried Mandrake 8.2 and it sees both drives attached to the Promise controller and it is able to create the Raid Arrays from them.

This really makes no sense. How can something work on Mandrake 8.2 and not do so on Mandrake 9.0? I wish I could fix this as it will be double work to update the much older 8.2?

Somebody has to have a good workaround for this. If you can please help.

I am about to build a personal file and web server. The setup is as follows:

Gateway G6-450

Pentium II-450 Mghz

384-MGB of RAM

3COM-595TX Card

Cheap DVD-Drive

Quantum 13GB HD

2 WD 200 GB JB in Software Raid 1

Promise TX2 Ultra 100 PCI Card (came with the drives)

Mandrake Linux 9.0

Here's my problem. When I get to the partitioning tool of the installation, the installer only sees one of the two WD drives attached to the Promise controler. If anyone can shed light on why this might be happening, I'd be very appreciative.

Mandrake has a very tuned Apache with all kinds of extensions pre-compiled, so if possible, I would much prefer to use Mandrake.

This is not a hardware issue as Red Hat 8.0 sees both drives and installs allowing me to setup a Raid 1 between the 2 WD hard drives. I have used the Raid 1 to place my /home and /var directories there.

I really would prefer to use Mandrake as that what I have always used for the past 3 years and know best, so lend a hand if you can.

Thank you,

Yuyo

When I installed Linux I created accounts for my kids. This is because they use my computer more than any others in the house.

 

Beyond the creation I have done nothing to the configuration of their accounts and such. For a couple reasons; 1) I haven't learned enough about Linux yet to know what can be controlled. ...I mean, besides everything :) and 2) I am pondering what should be controlled. And, I suspect this could be different for each child. I'm talking strictly computing technology here. :)

 

What software is available that helps with various functions of family security and usability?

 

What software and policies have you found that work well for your family for computer and internet use?

 

What OS programs do your kids enjoy using/playing?

 

My kids have alot of fun with many of the games that came installed on Linux. They each have several favorites and I have bought a few Loki games that they enjoy. No, they are NOT allowed to play my Quake Arena. :P

 

But, I have a major problem with kids games. Math Blaster(s), Reading Blaster(s), Carmen Sandiego, Clue, Oregon Trail, JumpStart ____  (fill in the blank), Elmo's Reading, and on and on. Dozens of titles that I certainly can not retire. I see no alternative to setting up a box with my Win98SE on it to run all this stuff. I am thinking of just having one Win machine with no 'net access, no email and such. Just a standalone for running Win games. I would love to just Wine all this stuff and not bother with Windows at all. But, Wine isn't perfect and I don't have time to screw with that many titles to get them running in Wine. (And only to ultimately fail in some cases.)

 

Has anyone come across open source education titles on the level with some of the heavy hitters sitting on my desk?

 

 

Some great titles:

 

KEduca

KGeo

Kstars

Ktouch

Kvoctrain

Kcheckers

Xboard

Chromium

TuxRacer

In summary; how have you used GNU/Linux to provide safe, fun and educational computing solutions for your kids?

I also would like to extend a warm thank you to Stallman for his unrelenting fight for freedom.

His vision and his passion are an inspiration to me.

Try the 3ware controllers. The drives are included in the stock kernel and they work very well.

I specifically recommend the 3-ware 7450 or 7850. Hypermicro sells them in the US at a decent price.