mandag 14 februar 2005, 13:39, skrev Gavin McCullagh: > Hi, > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Ragnar Wisl�ff wrote: > > > Does anyone know of such a card that they could recommend? > > > > There are several. Just make sure you have 64 bit PCI slots (you should > > with brand new hardware), since most of the multi-NIC cards have that. > > Otherwsie be very particular about your spec when ordering. (I've been > > burnt :/) > > Noted thanks. I'm, starting to think this might be the best bet. > > > I think it is a shame that IBM releases a mainstream Intel server with > > hardware that is not supported by the standard kernel, if that is what > > they have done. So much for the dinner speeches about Linux support in > > that case. > > It seems that some people see little or no difference between proprietary > 3rd party binary drivers and standard, free kernel drivers. I guess those > people haven't had to use/patch them much. I'm surprised broadcom have not > released the drivers (even with limited functionality). I would have > thought it was in their interest to smooth the use of broadcom drivers in > linux (or any OS for that matter). > > > If you have not installed a separate RAID card (serveraid 6i is what I > > see mostly in new IBM servers), then the Adaptec card on the motherboard > > will allow you to do RAID 1 with something they call hostraid. This > > hostraid thing does not work. When installing the installer says it > > cannot find any disks to partition. If you got your disks partitioned, > > you should be fine. > > Worked totally smoothly for us. We went through the (apparently > linux-based) CDROM config tool which asked us what sort of RAID we wanted > and offered to place Windows drivers on the disk for us (we politely > declined). We just said 'RAID 1' and it configured that. When we rebooted > and put the Skolelinux CD in, it just saw one drive (the RAID1 one) and > partitioned and installed on that.
If you have an IBM ServeRAID card in the server it will have loaded the ips kernel module and there will be an entry in /proc/scsi/ips/0 that gives a bit of info about the controller. > > > If you managed to get hostraid working I'm very keen to understand how > > you went about it. > > Right now I can't tell you any more than the above really. I have yet to > get to installing the disk monitoring/reporting utilities which are on the > cdrom. Heh, IBM Director is a challenge for a weekend :) -- Ragnar Wisl�ff -------------- life is a reach. then you gybe.
