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

[Marco Fischer]

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...

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.

Best regards
Marco



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Im Auftrag von Alexander Dalloz
Gesendet: Freitag, 19. November 2004 01:54
An: For users of Fedora Core releases
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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