Re: Driver For IBM RAID

2005-06-11 Thread Darryl L. Miles
Marc A. Volovic wrote: I also heartily recommend AGAINST running a pure-raid system. At least the swap partition should reside on a non-raid device (else you raid virtual memory, an exercise in futility and waste). If the disk fails during a swap-in (or swap-out) does my system crash ?

Re: Driver For IBM RAID

2005-06-05 Thread shimon
Hi, We have IBM-306 series with 6300esb Sata Raid. I'm tying to install RHEL-4. I enabled raid at bios and configure it using the Ibm-support cd. Bios seems to recognize the raid, but when I'm trying to install Linux, it doesn't recognize the raid ( I see 2 seperate disks). Doe's anyone know

Re: Driver For IBM RAID

2005-06-05 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
On Sunday 05 June 2005 11:31 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We have IBM-306 series with 6300esb Sata Raid. I'm tying to install RHEL-4. I enabled raid at bios and configure it using the Ibm-support cd. Bios seems to recognize the raid, but when I'm trying to install Linux, it doesn't

Re: Driver For IBM RAID

2005-06-05 Thread shimi
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 11:31 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We have IBM-306 series with 6300esb Sata Raid. I'm tying to install RHEL-4. I enabled raid at bios and configure it using the Ibm-support cd. Bios seems to recognize the raid, but when I'm trying to install Linux, it doesn't

Re: Driver For IBM RAID

2005-06-05 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth shimi: On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 11:31 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Therefore, even if you do get this to work, it won't be any better than doing software-RAID using the native kernel feature, which is what you should do in my opinion... This very much depends on the specific goal of

Re: Driver For IBM RAID

2005-05-18 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 11:23 pm, Danny Lieberman wrote: Aharon Centos is essentially RHEL 3/4 with a free upgrade and maintenance path NOT RH 9 FWIW - you cannot *freely *download RHEL the way you can download Fedora, if you're not sure surf to http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/ Thank

Re: Driver For IBM RAID

2005-05-18 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 11:24 pm, Danny Lieberman wrote: Aharon My answer to you before was incomplete - RH EL is Open Source - which means you can download the source of the O/S and compile it yourself. The binary download seems to cost $179 $179 for workstation, $349 for servers, and my

Re: Driver For IBM RAID

2005-05-18 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 03:30 pm, Danny Lieberman wrote: aharon this is a familiar problem with FC3 solved as you already know by RH 9 ESv4 there are similar issues with gigabit eth nics if you need a whitebox version then use Centos 3.4 I just started installing Centos 4 on an IBM machine

Re: Driver For IBM RAID - More information

2005-05-18 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
More information below On Wednesday 18 May 2005 01:09 pm, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: On Tuesday 17 May 2005 03:30 pm, Danny Lieberman wrote: aharon this is a familiar problem with FC3 solved as you already know by RH 9 ESv4 there are similar issues with gigabit eth nics if you

Driver For IBM RAID

2005-05-17 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
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). When I boot the Fedora installation CD, it does not find and disks. I have tried very hard to find

Re: Driver For IBM RAID

2005-05-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
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

Re: Driver For IBM RAID

2005-05-17 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
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

Re: Driver For IBM RAID

2005-05-17 Thread Danny Lieberman
Aharon Centos is essentially RHEL 3/4 with a free upgrade and maintenance path NOT RH 9 FWIW - you cannot *freely *download RHEL the way you can download Fedora, if you're not sure surf to http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/ Centos is ( to quote from their web site www.centos.org ) CentOS

Re: Driver For IBM RAID

2005-05-17 Thread Danny Lieberman
Aharon My answer to you before was incomplete - RH EL is Open Source - which means you can download the source of the O/S and compile it yourself. The binary download seems to cost $179 danny Aharon Schkolnik wrote: On Tuesday 17 May 2005 07:38 pm, Danny Lieberman wrote: Aharon Centos is RH 9