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

Sat May 7 09:03:55 UTC 2005
Jonathan <j at firebright.com>

No, in fact I didn't.  Odd.  I did have to pass a crapload of bootup 
commands (noscsi among them), but I have no record of what I used...

Thanks fer the help...

Jonathan

Peter Farrow wrote:

> 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
>>
>> Have fun.
>> Good day
>>
>> Nikos
>>
>> On 5/7/05, Jonathan <j at firebright.com> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> List:
>>>
>>> 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. ;-)
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Odd.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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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