RE: [SLUG] RAID

[Howard Lowndes <lannet@nospam.lannet.com.au>]

Would you care to point to the patch for the RAID from boot.  I wasn't
able to get that working - with or without RH.

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Howard.
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LANNet Computing Associates <http://www.lannet.com.au>

On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Marty wrote:

> 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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