AW: IBM xSeries 206 SATA HOSTRAID doesn't work with FC3

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Marco Fischer wrote:

> Oh my god!
>
> That is not what I wanted to hear. Does it mean that IBM is selling the
> perfect illusion of a hardware RAID? I think it's marketing...

They don't claim to have hardware raid in the thing.

> And I like RHEL, but only for commercial usage. I run a cluster of two
> Oracle databases with shared storage on RHEL 2.1 Update 2. And they run and
> run and run...
> But for this server, I'm not willing to buy entitlements to get my updates.
> FC has a very well working up2date. That is quiet enough for me.

> Maybe I should buy a Promise controller, to get a real RAID.

Most promise controllers are driver based software raid. Why don't you try 
linux software raid. It's standard, high perfomance and it works.

joelja

> Best regards
> Marco
>
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> Im Auftrag von Alexander Dalloz
> Gesendet: Freitag, 19. November 2004 01:54
> An: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Betreff: Re: IBM xSeries 206 SATA HOSTRAID doesn't work with FC3
>
> Am Fr, den 19.11.2004 schrieb Marco Fischer um 1:30:
>
>> I tried to install FC3 on an IBM xSeries 206 Server with two SATA
> harddisks
>> configured as RAID 1. There is one logical volume which covers the whole
>> capacity. The setup does not recognize the logical raid volume, IT
> RECOVERS
>> THE SINGLE HARDDISKS.
>
> This is as it is "fake" RAID, or like IBM calls it "Entry-level software
> RAID via system SATA controller, embedded in system BIOS".
>
>> I think, the Kernel has not the right modules for this controller. I think
>> the module is "AAICH". There are disk-images with a driver module on the
> IBM
>> website, but only for SuSE 9.0, RH 9.0 and RH Enterprise Linuxes.
>
> Others know that situation too, where no open source drivers exist.
>
>> I don't want such crap on my linux box! I want FC3!
>
> What is "crap"? RHEL? (Btw. that is some kind of little child
> behaviour.)
>
>> Is there anybody which runs a 206 with a raid under FC?
>
>> Best regards Marco
>
> Alexander
>
>
>

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