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elMaxx
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 Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 2:06 pm Post subject: I know its site problems related to PF but.... |
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Yeah, i ran into a problem with installing RedHat Enterprise Linux ES ver. 3
Here's the prob.
I got some Penguin Computing boxes (Relion 2000) with a new Intel Chipset and RAID controlers.
The problem is that the RH installer will not find the SATA RAID, because the kernel in this installation... well its kinda old.
I wanted to ask the local Linux Fu masters if they know something about installing newer RAID stuff on older kernels?
thanks.
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I'm no Linux guru, but maybe this will help - When installing Windows, the setup prompts asking if you have any RAID or SCSI devices - if so, you can supply the drivers via a floppy.
I'm guessing Linux setup would have an option to do this - do you have a RAID driver floppy that came with the motherboard? If not, try Googling the name of the RAID interface and see if you can get some drivers - then, just dump those on a disk. |
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elMaxx
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Yup, using the net to find RH resources.
brb.
*goes off on polar bear hunt* @.@
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I've only got experience with installing Slackware 10.1 on my AMD64 (with onboard SATA raid controller on an ASUS board), so this may or may not be helpful. Details are a touch sketchy, because this was 6 months ago. Anyway, the setup refused to recognise my SATA drive using the standard setup options. However, a friend and I went looking, and you could boot a kernel (at least, I think it was a kernel) called sata.i I don't think it was listed, but it worked. This was with a 2.6.x kernel (whatever came standard with Slack 10.1), so I'm not sure if the 2.4.x (?) kernel has an option like that.
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Whip-lash
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| Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:43 pm Post subject: Re: I know its site problems related to PF but.... |
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| Maxx wrote: | Yeah, i ran into a problem with installing RedHat Enterprise Linux ES ver. 3
Here's the prob.
I got some Penguin Computing boxes (Relion 2000) with a new Intel Chipset and RAID controlers.
The problem is that the RH installer will not find the SATA RAID, because the kernel in this installation... well its kinda old.
I wanted to ask the local Linux Fu masters if they know something about installing newer RAID stuff on older kernels?
thanks. |
Most of the time you should be able to find precompiled drivers, and sometimes even prebuilt driver disks for use in certain kernel versions. For example, I had obtained an old Dell PowerEdge that used an LSI MegaRaid card that had since been removed from the standard Red Hat kernel, replaced with one that only worked with newer cards. I was able to find a driver disk that worked, but it took a bit of convincing to get it to work since the floppy drive was DOA.
From what I understand about your situation, you would need to find out what the make and model of the SATA RAID controller is. If it's the model I'm looking at, it is a 3Ware 9500S SATA Controller. It may be worth mentioning that I beleive the driver for this card (or family of cards) is available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and CentOS 4.x. If possible, you may want to consider moving towards a newer generation of RHEL (or CentOS). |
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