A little clarification for question 2: > > My questions: > > 1. How do I mount the second hard drive to create one continuous volume > > available > > to the user space? > > > > 2. Is it possible to mix SATA and EIDE? I would like to install a third > > 250Gb EIDE drive > > in the last available bay. > > > > 3. Does the output of SMARTD look ok or does it suggest a problem with one > > of the drives? > > > > Thank you very much for any suggestion you can offer me. > > > > Gabriel. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Say good-bye to spam, viruses and pop-ups with MSN Premium -- free trial > > offer! http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200359ave/direct/01/ > > > > My answers: > 1. Logical Volume Management (LVM) would allow you to do this. Another > option would be a RAID card with JBOD (Just a Bunch of Discs) support. > Use 3ware if you want to be able to boot from the volume. It's the only > manufacturer that I'm aware of with true hardware RAID. > > 2. Yes. You can mix SATA and EIDE within a system. You can also use different interfaces for LVM. For a RAID card it depends on the manufacturer, although I'm pretty sure you could use a SATA RAID card with a SATA to IDE converter on one or more drives. > > 3. To my untrained eye it appears that you have a problem. (Sorry I'm > not more of a help on this one.) > > Wayne Steenburg >
