Fedora Users — Re: AW: IBM xSeries 206 SATA HOSTRAID doesn't work with FC3

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Marco Fischer wrote:

Oh my god!

That is not what I wanted to hear. Does it mean that IBM is selling the
perfect illusion of a hardware RAID? I think it's marketing...


They don't claim to have hardware raid in the thing.

And I like RHEL, but only for commercial usage. I run a cluster of two
Oracle databases with shared storage on RHEL 2.1 Update 2. And they run and
run and run...
But for this server, I'm not willing to buy entitlements to get my updates.
FC has a very well working up2date. That is quiet enough for me.

Maybe I should buy a Promise controller, to get a real RAID.

Most promise controllers are driver based software raid. Why don't you try linux software raid. It's standard, high perfomance and it works.

joelja

Best regards
Marco

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Betreff: Re: IBM xSeries 206 SATA HOSTRAID doesn't work with FC3

Am Fr, den 19.11.2004 schrieb Marco Fischer um 1:30:

I tried to install FC3 on an IBM xSeries 206 Server with two SATA

harddisks

configured as RAID 1. There is one logical volume which covers the whole
capacity. The setup does not recognize the logical raid volume, IT

RECOVERS

THE SINGLE HARDDISKS.


This is as it is "fake" RAID, or like IBM calls it "Entry-level software
RAID via system SATA controller, embedded in system BIOS".

I think, the Kernel has not the right modules for this controller. I think
the module is "AAICH". There are disk-images with a driver module on the

IBM

website, but only for SuSE 9.0, RH 9.0 and RH Enterprise Linuxes.


Others know that situation too, where no open source drivers exist.

I don't want such crap on my linux box! I want FC3!


What is "crap"? RHEL? (Btw. that is some kind of little child
behaviour.)

Is there anybody which runs a 206 with a raid under FC?

Best regards Marco


Alexander

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