raidctl and disksuite used together

[csgonan]

I have a live Sunfire v440 server with 4 drives and I want to mirror drive 0 & 1 to 2 & 3. The on-board raid controller only allows for 1 live mirror. I was thinking of disksuite, but unfortunately the second disk is just one large partition with no free slices.

I was thinking of using raidctl to mirror the second disk and disksuite to mirror the root drive.

Has anyone done that and if so, did they encounter any problems?

Thank you

 

[dandan123]

I don't see any reason why it should not work.

Once you use raidctl to mirror two drives one of the drives will not show up under Solaris. Format will only show 3 drives.

 

[csgonan]

Thank you.

I have used raidctl on another machine, but I have never used Disksuite.

Would you do the raidctl first on the second drives and then create the disksuite devices, or the reverse?

Thank you

 

[dandan123]

Raidctl first and then disksuite. Why do you want to use disksuite on the mirrored drives ?

 

[csgonan]

I don't. I have 4 disks. I want disksuite on the root drive and raidctl on the 2nd drive. There are no free partitions on the 2nd drive so raidctl will be used to mirror drive 1 to drive 3 and disksuite used to mirror drive 0 to drive 2.

 

[dandan123]

Should work fine.