sles8 -- configuring the "second" raid array

[pvl]

Ok, I'm a blushing newbie. But I tried to find the "how to" that walks me through this, and have been unsuccessful.

I have SLES 8 installed, with VMware running on it ... this box will host a variety of small server VM's. So far, so good.

However, the box is configured with 4 disks, 2 each on seperate channels of the RAID controller ... 2 mirrored for the OS, etc ... and 2 others much larger mirrored to hold the VM disk images.

How do I tell whether this second array is utilized or not? When I look at KDE Control Module - available hardware, it sees under disks CCISS disk 0/0

Under Resources/Misc it says:

Device file:/dev/cciss/c0do
Geometry (logicval) CHS 17433/255/32
Size: 142253280 sectores a 512 bytes

Is this just the first, smaller array? (2 x 72gb mirrored)

The other array is 2 x 144gb

How do I go about access the other array, and/or determining for sure what is partitioned, etc ;;;;

[pvl]

OK ... so I figured out that \dev\cciss\c1d0 is the correct device file. But it was not available for me to partiition until I installed the proliant support pack ... apparently I did not have the correct raid controller driver for this second controller.

Now, I need to figure out what mount point to use.

YAST sees the hardware, and will let me create the partition, but it seems to only let me select a mount point that I don't want. For example, I can choose as the mount point:

/mnt
/usr
/opt
/boot
(etc ...)

Am I correct in thinking that I do not want to use these? So, I created a directory /data_vol and manually typed that in as the mount point. Does that make sense?

Basically I am thinking that I want a rooted mount point for each signifigant hardware partition. I figure if I name these using some convention, then it will be easier to determine what directory actually is seperate hardware ... so _vol I think will be what I add when ever I do this ...

Again, does this all make sense? Or is it only the ravings of a netware/windows guy gone mad!?!?