Setting Up ESATA Disks

  1. use dmesg to work out which disks they are
  2. format them if necessary:
 fdisk /dev/sdc
 p 
 n
 make it a ID 83 (Linux)
 w
  1. create the RAID0 device
 mdadm -Cv /dev/md2 -l0 -n2 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1
  1. Format it
 mkfs.ext3 /dev/md2
  1. mount it
 mount /dev/md2 /mnt/glast_agn
  1. umount /mnt/glast_agn
  2. mdadm --stop /dev/md2