RE: [SLUG] RAID

["Marty" <marty@nospam.asgard.aus.tm>]

Yes.

A few months back I tried to get a DPT (subsidiary of Adaptec) Millenium
RAID card to work with Red Hat.

DPT supply downloadable install disk images to do the job, for Red Hat only.
(www.dpt.com)

Everything works fine through the install, but then dies horribly on the
first boot. I posted the details to SLUG at the time but no responses ;(

The solution for me, as usual, was dump Red Hat and install Slackware.
Compliments of a patch from some unknown guys website I was able to jag
slackware into booting off the RAID and I haven't looked back since.

I know this is theoretically a kernel issue and therefore mostly
distribution independant and I have no explanation for why it worked on
Slackware with no pain and refused Dead Rat. Normally I would say "Yet
Another Dead Rat Bug" but someone would probably mis-quote me ;)

Cheers,
Marty

> Does anyone have experience of using RAID controllers with RH6.1.
> I'm planning on a machine setup with an Adaptec pci RAID controller
> performing RAID 0 to provide disk redundancy - any pitfalls to
> plan for? It
> looks to me like it should be quite straightfoward - that the RAID will
> happen without the OS needing to be aware of it at all.
>
> Thanks in advance for your comments.


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