I found out the RAID controller was using a Via 6410 chipset, which I have discovered is the bane of many linux users who ended up in the same boat.
The place I had build it has swapped the mother board for one with a Promise controller, which has drivers for RedHat 8 and Suse 9.0. I am really leaning toward using software RAID, so should I put the two drives on the same controller? --Thanks Devlin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Jorgensen Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:59 PM To: BYU Unix Users Group Subject: Re: [uug] New Redhat Install On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 14:41, Devlin Daley wrote: > Here at work we just got a new system to use for a file server, P4 2.6, > 1GB RAM, and two 250GB hard drives in a RAID 1 array (built in raid > controller). IDE RAID controllers are bogus, their really pseudo-software controllers. > > Two questions, > > The first, what would the recommendation be between RedHat 9 or Fedora? > I have not used Fedora yet but quite liked Redhat 9. Fedora... well, okay, maybe there'd be a reason to stay with RedHat, but if you go that route you should be using their server line and paying for a subscription. Otherwise you should just use Fedora. > > Second question is presently more important. I'm trying a CD install, > but it is stalling. No error messages, it just kind of hangs while > looking at ide1. The hard drives have absolutely no formatting > whatsoever, but I didn't think that it mattered. > > Here is the last few lines of the boot: > > PCI: Enabling device 00:1f.1 (0005 -> 007) > ICH5: chipset revision 2 > ICH5: 100% native mode on irq 5 > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xef60-0xef67, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xef68-0xef6f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio > hdc: LTN526S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > ide1 at 0xefa0-0xefa7, 0xefaa on irq 5 > > Then it just sits there forever. I had a similar problem about a year > ago, ended up being a bad hard drive. I tried booting with noprobe but > with the same result. > > Any suggestions? This probably has something to do with the silly IDE RAID controller. You can find instructions for bypassing the RAID and then set up linux software RAID. I'd really recommend that route. Unless I'm mistaken recent versions of the kernel bypass the RAID stuff by default on many IDE controllers (because it's not going to work anyway). Fedora should do this for you... it did for me... I think. Software RAID is really good though, it has very little overhead and it's somewhat more flexible. Even hardware RAID (especially fake IDE RAID) has overhead, so your not missing much there. <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html> Or there's information on getting the IDE RAID to work anyway here: <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ATA-RAID-HOWTO/index.html> Also, I wouldn't rule out the possibility of a bad drive, especially if it's new. Most drives (most anything, really) either fail the first day or just after the warranty is over. Another thing: Is it SATA? If it is then try Fedora. Earlier kernels don't work right with most SATA. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
