Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core 4?

[hewitt_tech]

This may be the main problem. If you can't get a status on the array, you 
wouldn't know without rebooting the system whether or not there had been a 
disk fault.

-Alex

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Ekendahl" <mekendahl at hardlined.com>
To: "GNHLUG Discussion" <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core 
4?


> hewitt_tech wrote:
>> I'm installing Fedora Core 4 on a Dell SC1420 server that contains a 
>> hardware SATA RAID controller and 3 80 GB drives. So far it appears that 
>> the hardware RAID (Dell Cerc /Adaptec) makes the 3 drives transparent to 
>> the OS. That is Linux just saw an ~148 GB drive and installed on it 
>> without complaints. I can see that Fedora doesn't seem to have any way to 
>> talk to the controller to determine if there are any drive faults but 
>> that can be controlled from the BIOS. Anyone know of any problems setting 
>> up a system this way?
>>  -Alex
>>
>
> Funny you mentioned this. A coworker and I were just discussing raid under 
> RHEL. We are using ciss driver and can't seem to find anyway to get a 
> status of the hardware raid array. There is some information in the proc 
> fs, but nothing too informational. We are mostly concerned with the status 
> of the array rebuilding. Are there any redhat tools to do this?
>
> -Martin Ekendahl
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