Re: using hp proliant ml 330
Am Do, den 08.04.2004 schrieb Lucas Albers um 20:09: I got it work, but I was trying to make boot floppies so I could load the drivers from the install cd, so I could install direct on it. Could not find directions on this anywhere, or how to compile it statically in the kernel. As far as I can remember you couldn't compile the drive statically in the kernel - probably due to licensing issues. I should be possible to put into the '/boot' directory on a floppy and load it during the setup process (i.e. preload modules from floppy). The Controller used in the ProLiant ML330 series is an IDE-RAID and most of the logic is not done by the controller but by the driver itself. So performance will probably suck... My links refer to source to compile the drivers as a module. It's gpl released. I just took a look at the files I got from LSI (who now own AMI) and the driver is half GPL, half proprietary. Quoting megaide-shimdriver-readme.txt: LSI Logic's Shim driver has its raid intelligence as binary file megaide_lib.o and the rest of the driver is open. megaide_lib.o can be build with the open source to get driver image megaide.o. best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\ System Consulting Fax:+43 316 428896 \ Web Development -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using hp proliant ml 330
Am Do, den 08.04.2004 schrieb Lucas Albers um 20:09: I got it work, but I was trying to make boot floppies so I could load the drivers from the install cd, so I could install direct on it. Could not find directions on this anywhere, or how to compile it statically in the kernel. As far as I can remember you couldn't compile the drive statically in the kernel - probably due to licensing issues. I should be possible to put into the '/boot' directory on a floppy and load it during the setup process (i.e. preload modules from floppy). The Controller used in the ProLiant ML330 series is an IDE-RAID and most of the logic is not done by the controller but by the driver itself. So performance will probably suck... My links refer to source to compile the drivers as a module. It's gpl released. I just took a look at the files I got from LSI (who now own AMI) and the driver is half GPL, half proprietary. Quoting megaide-shimdriver-readme.txt: LSI Logic's Shim driver has its raid intelligence as binary file megaide_lib.o and the rest of the driver is open. megaide_lib.o can be build with the open source to get driver image megaide.o. best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\ System Consulting Fax:+43 316 428896 \ Web Development
Re: using hp proliant ml 330
Am Do, den 08.04.2004 schrieb Guillaume Plessis um 00:42: Hello Being lucky with Google may give you the solution : http://www.campbell-lange.net/linux/ AMI MegaRAID != AMI MegaIDE The Controller used in the ProLiant ML330 series is an IDE-RAID and most of the logic is not done by the controller but by the driver itself. So performance will probably suck... The controller will need proprietary drivers as AMI wants to protect their intellectual property - despite RAID0/1 being quite simple... As Lucas wrote, you CAN use it with Debian, but I would advise against it. Updating the kernel will be more work and you cannot even quickly recover your system with Knoppix (or something alike) because of the proprietary modules. We ditched our ML330 after a few days and replaced it with a DL380 - a little bit more expensive, but worth the money. Basically the ML330 is a nice machine - except for the IDE subsystem (there is only one other IDE port for the CD-ROM, so you can't even use Software-RAID as the HDD won't be detected by the OS!). So if you really want a cheap dual Xeon tower server made by HP/Compaq, either get an extra IDE controller, buy the SCSI version or use a RAID controller wich is supported by the kernel. It will save you a lot of time and headaches... ;o) best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\ System Consulting Fax:+43 316 428896 \ Web Development
Re: using hp proliant ml 330
I got it work, but I was trying to make boot floppies so I could load the drivers from the install cd, so I could install direct on it. Could not find directions on this anywhere, or how to compile it statically in the kernel. Markus Oswald said: The Controller used in the ProLiant ML330 series is an IDE-RAID and most of the logic is not done by the controller but by the driver itself. So performance will probably suck... My links refer to source to compile the drivers as a module. It's gpl released. The controller will need proprietary drivers as AMI wants to protect their intellectual property - despite RAID0/1 being quite simple... As Lucas wrote, you CAN use it with Debian, but I would advise against it. Updating the kernel will be more work and you cannot even quickly recover your system with Knoppix (or something alike) because of the proprietary modules. We ditched our ML330 after a few days and replaced it with a DL380 - a little bit more expensive, but worth the money. It seems to have good enough performance for us. We are using for weather modeling website, which just requires mysql and php. -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman
using hp proliant ml 330
I recently received a hp proliant ml 330 which I installed redhat and then debian linux on it. I requires the megaide modules to see the raid disks correctly. They can be compiled from source, from this location.(see below.) I could not determine how to compile them statically into the kernel, or create driver disks for a bf24 install. So I had to intall redhat linux and then debootstrap into a debian install, after I had recompiled the kernel and loaded the driver module via initrd. directions: install redhat linux boot machine install debootstrap install debian download megaide kernel http://www.stevehardy.info/ http://support.megaraid.com/support/dlresult.cfm download 2.4.25 kernel copy extra megaide directory to /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi so it's a subdirectory of scsi. edit makefile to include megaide section config kernel, make megaide include and cramfs,initrd ext3 scsis support. compile megaide kernel make dep bzImage megaide modules modules_install install kernel boot debian install. configure debian -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using hp proliant ml 330
Hello Being lucky with Google may give you the solution : http://www.campbell-lange.net/linux/ Enjoy :) On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 16:21:54 -0600, Lucas Albers wrote: I recently received a hp proliant ml 330 which I installed redhat and then debian linux on it. I requires the megaide modules to see the raid disks correctly. They can be compiled from source, from this location.(see below.) I could not determine how to compile them statically into the kernel, or create driver disks for a bf24 install. -- Guillaume Plessis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network GNU/Linux systems administrator (GnuPG infos in the headers of this email) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: using hp proliant ml 330
Hello Being lucky with Google may give you the solution : http://www.campbell-lange.net/linux/ Enjoy :) On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 16:21:54 -0600, Lucas Albers wrote: I recently received a hp proliant ml 330 which I installed redhat and then debian linux on it. I requires the megaide modules to see the raid disks correctly. They can be compiled from source, from this location.(see below.) I could not determine how to compile them statically into the kernel, or create driver disks for a bf24 install. -- Guillaume Plessis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network GNU/Linux systems administrator (GnuPG infos in the headers of this email) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
