Precision 490, FC6 and Hardware Raid

[Bert Culpepper]

It's been a couple of months since I "built" precisions with RAID and 
RHEL4 but the only way to get RAID required a separate RAID controller. 
We used CERC SATA 6-Channel Controllers.  We defined the RAID in the 
controller's BIOS and RH saw it as a single disk device, which we 
partitioned as we wanted.  AFAIK, you can't use the integrated SATA 
support with RHEL4, it works for Windows I understand.

hth,
Bert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Allard" <ballard at stanford.edu>
To: <rusty at s5w.com>
Cc: <linux-precision at dell.com>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 3:24 PM
Subject: RE: Precision 490, FC6 and Hardware Raid


Hi Rusty,

Did Dell help get your system working with hardware raid-1 yet?

In the RHEL 4 installer, our SATA drives show up individually instead of 
as
one array.  The minimum goal is to get some good drivers for the 
controller
to get NCQ going.  We can't go RHEL 5 because it's not supported by our
folks and it's too new.  Ideally, Intel should support Linux better

We're trying to install RHEL as per the following:

OS: RHEL 4 Update 4 AS x86_64  original iso as downloaded directly from 
RHN,
md5 verified.
Hardware: Precision 490
Bios: A04
Controller: "Intel 631xESB/632xESB SATA RAID Controller" pci id: 
8086:2682,
firmware: 5.6.2.1002
Drives: 2 x 160 GB 10k SATA, WDC WD1600ADFS-75SLR2, both firmware: 
21.07Q21
Ordered RAID config: C4- All SATA Hard Drives, RAID1 for 2 Hard Drives, 
Dell
Precision 690 (341-3433)

Tried with and without driver floppies from R131526.

Kind Regards,
Barry Allard
Stanford Medical Informatics (SMI)
Work: +1.650.723.7270 Pacific Time (shared with Alex Skrenchuk, rings
through to his cell.)

If you can't reach me, try Alex. alexskr at stanford.edu


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