I have a Dell Precision™ WorkStation 420 with the following junk in the trunk:

Duall p3@866
512MB 800Mhz Rambus
DVD
CD-RW
G4 ti4200
SB live

aic7899 scsi (aic7xxx)
4x36GB 10k scsi drives internal & 3x36GB 10k scsi external (don't know if I will use those or not)

Anyway, the 4 disk are on the same controller so it wouldn't be fault tolerant if that controller went down, but I thought I might as well take advantage of haveing the exta disk and doing a raid setup. I was thinking of

On 2 of the disk having /boot / & swap, boot & / raid
On the other disk just having /home on raid.

RAID 0 or 1

Would this be easy to install? Would you suggest I do something different? Keep in mind that I will also want to move to 2.6 kernel too.

Also, is it possible to use LVM or EVMS over raid and be able to install that on Slackware too?

Or, is it possible to use "parted" safely on RAID drives if I choose to create sepreate slices for /usr /usr/local /var /tmp /opt & be able to resize if need be?

Please, any help or thoughs will be greatly appreciated!

All I can say is keep slack'n!



Or would you just forget about raid and move on with life!

Oh, last thought, when I boot up, I know I need to use "adaptec" at first boot for the kernel. When I want to upgrade my kernel to .23 is there another adaptec to use? I don't really know how that works with scsi & kernel. On my athlon-xp box when I upgrade kernels say from .22 to .23 I just download the kerenl, kernel-source, kernel-mod & kernel headers from slackware, upgradepkg ker*.tgz run "lilo" reboot and I'm done. If I do that with "adaptec" and scsi, Will I hose something up? Anything else I would need?

thx,