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

[hewitt_tech]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil Joseph Schelly" <neil at jenandneil.com>
To: <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core 
4?


> On Thursday 19 January 2006 07:12 pm, hewitt_tech wrote:
>> controlled from the BIOS. Anyone know of any problems setting up a system
>> this way?
>
> I know that's easily the best way to do it, keeping proprietary drivers 
> are
> far away from the OS as possible.  With the "single" effectively just 
> being a
> SCSI drive, it's a lot easier to work with it.
>
> That said, have you tried looking for utilities that will allow 
> communication
> with the controller?  I used to have a machine with an AMI/LSILogic 
> MegaRaid
> controller and they had utilities available as source to monitor and
> administer the controller and the arrays.  It's possible that such 
> utilities
> exist for this card as well.
> -Neil

I haven't done much looking yet. The installation guide that came with the 
system didn't say that Linux was a supported platform. But not supported may 
mean not having the utilities to access the array on-line.

-Alex

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