On Tuesday 17 May 2005 03:52 pm, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > >Hi. > > > >I am trying to install Fedora Core 3 on an IBM xSeries 306 machine with > > two SCSI disks set up as a mirror set. The SCSI controller is AIC 7901, > > and the IBM RAID is called ServeRaid (I think). > > Which ServeRaid is that? I think I may have had a similar problem in the > past.
Seems to be ServeRAID-7e > > >When I boot the Fedora installation CD, it does not find and disks. I have > >tried very hard to find a driver which I can supply during installation > > time, but have not been successful. > > > >When I boot from a RedHat 9 Enterprise 3 Update 4 installation CD, it DOES > >recognize the disk. lsmod shows modules named md, raid0, raid1, and raid5. > > If it's the same problem I've had, then the only driver for the hardware > raid is a binary one, no open source drivers. I ended up upgrading my > hardware raid to ServeRaid-7k (it memory serves me right), which has > open source drivers. Where can I find out which ServeRAIDs have open source drivers ? An upgrade means replacing the hardware ? > > If it's indeed ServeRaid-2e (again, I'm not sure about the numbers), > then you will only be able to get non-hardware raided drives. You can > just load the BIOS setting, disable the raid option, and then work with > the controller using the standard AIC driver. Yeah, but then I won't have hardware based RAID, right ? > > >Any ideas ? > > > >TIA ! > > Shachar -- The day is short, and the work is great, | Aharon Schkolnik and the laborers are lazy, and the reward | is great, and the Master of the house is | [EMAIL PROTECTED] impatient. - Ethics Of The Fathers Ch. 2 | 052-5560120 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
