[CentOS] URGENT: Problems with Dell raid on CentOS 4?

Sat May 7 09:02:28 UTC 2005
Peter Farrow <peter at farrows.org>

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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>>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...
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>>Anyone have any experience with this?  Is there some trick to getting
>>these 420SC's to load CentOS?
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>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Jonathan
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