[K12OSN] Installing K12LTSP to a SATA Hard Disk on theKT600/VT8237Chipset
Matthew Ross
mross at esd165.org
Thu Jul 8 15:12:20 UTC 2004
Joe,
As I stated in my previous email, it is a SuperMicro 5013C-MT. You can
get a look at the box and it's attributes here:
http://www.flytech.es/Supermicro/Productos/Servidores/Servidor%20Supermicro%205013C-MT.htm
The Bios reports the SATA card as a Adaptec 1230XS or something close to
that. I have learned that Adaptec has done the bios work for Marvell,
but the chipset and driver should be for the same Marvell.
We use a 3ware card in our backup server. That is an excellent card. The
installer for it's programs is a bit buggy, but once you get it running
it's quite easy to use. It's also nice to know that it emails me and my
cell phone when A) a drive fails, B) when my hot-swap drive kicks in,
and C) when it finised rebuilding the 2 Terabyte array.
--Matt
Joe Guenther wrote:
>Matt,
>
>What SATA controller card is in that SuperMicro server. I also recently got a supermicro server with an Adaptec 1210S controller. I did not get it running. I just installed everything onto a normal IDE hd and have left the SATA till we get a different card - thinking getting a 3ware card.
>
>I'd be interested in seeing what they put in from the factory, as I think our card was added by our local retailer.
>
>Joe Guenther
>= = = = = = = = = = = = = =
>LANtech - Didsbury
>Chinook's Edge School Div.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com]On
>Behalf Of Matthew Ross
>Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 4:04 PM
>To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
>Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Installing K12LTSP to a SATA Hard Disk on
>theKT600/VT8237Chipset
>
>
>I am currently having headaches installing linux on our Brand New
>SuperMicro 5013C-MT. This is a 1U Pentium 4 server, with 4 hot-swapable
>SATA drive bays in front. The only trouble is that the SATA controller
>is not exactly supported by Linux yet.
>
>The SATA controler on this system is using a Marvell chipset. Looking
>around on various lists, it looks like alpha support has just appeared
>in an open-source implementation of the 'libata' driver, but that's only
>in the most recent 2.6.6 and 2.6.7 kernels. I don't know of any distros
>which install using those kernels. Checking with Supermicro's website,
>they have binary RPM drivers for Redhat 8 and 9 and for Suse, but what
>if I wanted to install appon a mirrored system drive?
>
>If you want to see the current list of supported SATA drivers, this page
>here has a fairly good summary:
>http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
>
>Wishing everything was open source,
>--Matt
>
>
>
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