Linux ATA RAID HOWTO
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# 10. Tips and Important Notes

- Dont bother using KDE / GNOME or any other X window system to finish RAID installation as explained above. Use simple text terminal.

- You can press Cntrl-ALT-Fj to switch to `ttyj` where `j=1,2,..6`

- If you do start KDE/GNOME or any other X window system, it will run on `tty7`, which you can access by pressing Cntrl-ALT-F7

- If you decide to use Promise supplied SCSI emulation driver for FastTrack RAID, note that you are stuck at the default kernel version 2.4.7-10. Because, no source code for FastTrack is available.

- During RH 7.2 installation, choose ext3 and swap file types only.

- When you remove Promise SCSI emulation and setup Native Linux RAID, linux lets you access the hard disks either by mirror name: `d0` or individual disks themselves: `hde2`, `hdg3` etc. It is very important that: YOU NEVER access the hard disks directly by their name, instead access the corresponding mirror partition. Example: Use `/dev/ataraid/d0p3` instead of `/dev/hde3` or `/dev/hdg3`

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