Multiple RAID Volumes

[Dan Shoop]

At 12:08 AM +0200 4/25/07, Markus Hitter wrote:
>Recently I added a pair of identical hard drives to my G4 in the 
>intention to set up a bunch of mirrored volumes. The original drive 
>remains in the box as boot volume.
>
>Creating a mirror of both disks is a snap in disk utility, but there 
>seems to be no option to partition the resulting RAID.
>
>Partitioning both drives identical first, then creating mirrored 
>RAIDs of each volume pair appears to work ... up to two (2) volumes. 
>Attempting a third pair gives all sort of errors and a corrupted, 
>unrecoverable RAID.
>
>That "+" (plus) sign at the bottom left of the RAID volumes list 
>appears to add additional RAID volumes, but only the first one 
>accepts volumes to be added.
>
>So, how would I put six mirrored partitions onto two drives?

This is woolly think.

You don't partition a RAID, a RAID is constructed of partitions.
-- 

-dhan

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