3ware 9000 Series SATA Raid and Fedora Core 2 ?

[Robert Burton]

I'm going to be installing a similar 3ware 9000 series card in a few days.

I'm interested in one of your side questions. Can you boot off of an
array in Fedora?

Thanks,
Robert


On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:08:21 +0200, Erwin Cloostermans
<erwin.cloostermans at pandora.be> wrote:
> 
> echo "alias scsi_hostadapter 3w-9xxx" >> /etc/modprobe.conf
> 
> If you need or want the module already during the initial boot, run
> "mkinitrd" to create a new initial ram disk with all SCSI modules.
> 
> Alexander
> 
> My modprobe.conf contains
> alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 3w-xxxx
> 
> Shouldn't I change 3w-xxxx in 3w-9xxx ?
> What is the first scsi_hostadapter for ?
> 
> I already tried
> alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 3w-9xxx
> And
> #alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
> alias scsi_hostadapter 3w-9xxx
> 
> But that did not work.
> 
> I think an initial ram disk is only neccesary if I want to boot from the
> raid array. Is that right ?
> 
> 
> 
> Erwin
> 
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