Robert Frank wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 2 x intel quad core system with 32Mbytes of ram, 2 x 80GB disks > and one 250GB disk. > The two 80Gb disks were originally connected to a two port 3ware raid > controller (don't know the number) and are now on the same SATA > controller as the 250Gb disk. > > From the beginning: > After inserting the DVD with F7 x86_64, the 3ware raid controller was > recognized and the 3w3xxxx driver was installed. The controller had been > set up to use the two 80Gb disks as system disks mirrored (by hardware), > so F7 saw this array as a single disk (sda). > I could partition the disk (single /, single swap) and managed to get > the setup to install grub on this disk > Then I started the installation. The raid was formatted and then the > installation went through in a blaze, so it seemed - in reality every > package got a db4 error! > > I deleted the 2ware raid and defined two single disks, using one for a > test installation. I could then actually start the installation, but at > the package named 'rpm' it stopped and hung, not doing anything. I could > not see any kind of error on any of the consoles! > > Now I am running the two 80Gb disks on the SATA controller and am using > a sotware mirror for the root partition - installation fine, system is > up and running! > > I previously had FC5 x86_64 installed using the 3ware raid controller, > which worked, though it was not possible to use rpm (rebuilt the dbs > many times, cleanedup, did what was available on the net) - no use, rpm > always generated db errors. > > Now without the 3ware controller - so far no problems, evan after a yum > update. What is your question?
