[CentOS] URGENT: Problems with Dell raid on CentOS 4?
Peter Farrow
peter at farrows.org
Sat May 7 09:02:28 UTC 2005
But.... did you use software RAID on the other identical machine you
installed with the older disk?
P.
Nikos Zaharioudakis wrote:
>Unfortunately the "Raid controller " that the hardware says that
>comes with, uses a software driver in order to perform the raid
>functions. So to make the long story short just use the OS soft raid
>functionality
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>Have fun.
>Good day
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>Nikos
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>On 5/7/05, Jonathan <j at firebright.com> wrote:
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>>List:
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>>Good morning. I'm hoping someone is still up who can lend me an ear.
>>I'm sitting on the floor of Mae West surrounded by disassembled servers,
>>frustrated out of my mind. Same as last weekend. ;-)
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>>Actually, I'm having a weird issue. I have a Dell 420SC in front of
>>me. It's a fine machine, brand new. p4 2.8 800Mhz bus, 1GB DDR2
>>(2x512) and dual 80GB drives. I've used the onboard raid to build a
>>raid-0+1 (mirror) raid array. The problem is, it's telling me as soon
>>as I load up the setup for CentOS 4 that no drives are available and
>>that I should load up some.
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>>Odd.
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>>I have three machines running CentOS 4 over here with the identical
>>specs, and identical settings. One even has the exact same
>>configuration, including raid setup, and it's running happily. But it
>>was installed from and older CentOS 4 disk (got scratched). I've got
>>about 12 more to do tonight. How is it possible that the same machine
>>with concurrent serial numbers won't load RAID? Is there some trick?
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>>I'm really at a loss on this one. I'm on the 14th floor. Now if I
>>could get one of these windows to open, I think I have a very easy
>>solution...
>>
>>Anyone have any experience with this? Is there some trick to getting
>>these 420SC's to load CentOS?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Jonathan
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