[CentOS] Re: hardware raid vs fake raid

2007-09-13 Thread Tom Diehl
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Tom Diehl wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Tom Diehl wrote: Hi Tim, On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Tim Verhoeven wrote: On 9/13/07, Tom Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know how I can find out if an ibm serveraid 8

[CentOS] Re: hardware raid vs fake raid

2007-09-13 Thread Tom Diehl
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Mogens Kjaer wrote: Tom Diehl wrote: ... They do but nothing I can find in there tells me if it is real hardware raid or fake raid. Adaptec for example, also says that their fake raid cards are comaptable with Linux but they do not clearly specify if it is fake raid or t

RE: [CentOS] Re: hardware raid vs fake raid

2007-09-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Tom Diehl wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > Tom Diehl wrote: > >> > >> Hi Tim, > >> > >> > >> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Tim Verhoeven wrote: > >> > >>> On 9/13/07, Tom Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know how I can find out if an ibm serveraid >

Re: [CentOS] Re: hardware raid vs fake raid

2007-09-13 Thread Sebastian Walter
Mogens Kjaer wrote: > Sebastian Walter wrote: > ... >> As far as I see, the Adaptex AAC-RAID card is a SATA card, while >> Adaptec's SAS cards are called AIC, ASC/ASR or ASR > > I have 8 *SAS* disks on my AAC-RAID card: Thanks for pointing this out. > But maybe lspci is wrong, as it is in fact a

Re: [CentOS] Re: hardware raid vs fake raid

2007-09-13 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Sebastian Walter wrote: ... As far as I see, the Adaptex AAC-RAID card is a SATA card, while Adaptec's SAS cards are called AIC, ASC/ASR or ASR (please correct me if I'm wrong! Accept my apologies in advance if I am). I have 8 SAS disks on my AAC-RAID card: # arcconf getconfig 1 ... -

Re: [CentOS] Re: hardware raid vs fake raid

2007-09-13 Thread Sebastian Walter
Mogens Kjaer wrote: > My IBM x3500 machines have this card: > > # lspci > ... > 03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (Rocket) (rev 02) > ... > > I'm not quite sure if this also has an IBM serveraid name. > > I don't think it is fakeraid; setting up raid devices can take > place at bios lev

Re: [CentOS] Re: hardware raid vs fake raid

2007-09-13 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Mogens Kjaer wrote: ... # lspci ... 03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (Rocket) (rev 02) Alway google before answering :-) # lspci -v -n ... 03:00.0 0104: 9005:0286 (rev 02) Subsystem: 1014:9580 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 169 Memory at c82

Re: [CentOS] Re: hardware raid vs fake raid

2007-09-13 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Tom Diehl wrote: ... They do but nothing I can find in there tells me if it is real hardware raid or fake raid. Adaptec for example, also says that their fake raid cards are comaptable with Linux but they do not clearly specify if it is fake raid or true hardware Raid. AFAIK the Adaptec cards

Re: [CentOS] Re: hardware raid vs fake raid

2007-09-13 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: ... I hate to be the stater of the obvious... but doesn't IBM's website provide product specs along with a compatibility guide? I have tried asking questions on IBM's support fora, the answer is: CentOS? Not supported. Get RHEL3 or RHEL4. Some of the install scripts o

[CentOS] Re: hardware raid vs fake raid

2007-09-13 Thread Tom Diehl
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Tom Diehl wrote: Hi Tim, On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Tim Verhoeven wrote: On 9/13/07, Tom Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know how I can find out if an ibm serveraid 8k sas storage controller (zero channel RAID) is a real hardware RA

RE: [CentOS] Re: hardware raid vs fake raid

2007-09-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Tom Diehl wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Tim Verhoeven wrote: > > > On 9/13/07, Tom Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Does anyone know how I can find out if an ibm serveraid > 8k sas storage > >> controller (zero channel RAID) is a real hardware RAID > controller and

[CentOS] Re: hardware raid vs fake raid

2007-09-13 Thread Tom Diehl
Hi Tim, On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Tim Verhoeven wrote: On 9/13/07, Tom Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know how I can find out if an ibm serveraid 8k sas storage controller (zero channel RAID) is a real hardware RAID controller and supported in the standard CentOs kernel or is it a