>From the Supermicro FAQ (on their site): Q: I have your P4SCE [MB] and I want to use a Linux- based OS. Can I also use the onboard SATA controller and RAID function?
A: Yes, we support Linux Red Hat 7.3; 8.0; 9.0 in P-ATA or S-ATA but without RAID function. The SATA function in our P4SCE operates from Intel's ICH5R chipset. So far Intel only has SATA RAID driver for Windows 2000, XP or Server 2003 operating system. (PM) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Trevor Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 4:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: raid1, rh9 & SATA drives Let me take a wild guess... your MB has a hpt370 chip or a promise chip for ata raid right? <taken from a previous post of mine...> IIRC, many cheap raid cards are nothing more than an IDE controller with a raid bios. You still have to rely on the OS in order to handle up-to-the-minute raid features. Trust me, many cards including the 1200, promise cards, HPT, etc don't work the way true HW raid does. It's not true raid and you will not be happy with it. How do I know? I have a generic highpoint 37x raid card, an Adaptec 1200 (has the 37x chip) and an Adaptec 2400 (which uses the DPT chip, I think). The 37x cards are totally useless... well I could always stick them in a Windows box, I guess. See here for more information: http://www.ssc.com/pipermail/linux-list/2002-January/021963.html -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: raid1, rh9 & SATA drives I have a 1u server - the description is listed below. http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/SUPERServer/SuperServer5013C-T.htm I've loaded up RH9 with raid1 setup and I've updated the OS with all the latest rpms(kernel included) and such. The drives for the raid setup are Western Digital hot-swappable Serial ATA drives. So I figured with hot swappable drives running raid1 I'd be able to yank a drive up and still have things running. Then looking at /proc/mdstat I'd see 1 drive down - but the system *should* keep running. Anyhow I pulled a drive, typed few basic commands - got some junk that rolled across console - then the system froze. People could no longer ping the machine, console was unresponsive, ctl-alt-del didn't work. I had to power cycle the machine. Basically I'm asking why I'm seeing this behavior - w/ a system running raid1 with and hotswapable? Is there anything I can do as far as hard/software setup to make sure linux keeps running. In theory one drive can fair the the other should still work. -- Rock River Internet Roger Grunkemeyer 202 W. State St, 8th Floor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockford, IL 61101 815-968-3888 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
