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

[Ben Scott]

On 1/20/06, hewitt_tech <hewitt_tech at comcast.net> wrote:
> Dell included some CDs with the new system but not the OpenManage Server
> Administrator disk which is supposed to provide the RAID management
> utilities. I've been poking around the Dell web site looking for the
> required software but so far no luck.

  The short version is: Go to the Dell website, punch in the Service
Tag (Dell's version of a serial number) for the system, and follow the
"Downloads" link.  I generally find this works very well (at least,
compared to all the other lousy support web UIs I've used).

> Thanks Ben, I'll sign up and see if there might be some suggestions about
> how to manage the RAID array from the OS level. Dell's web site addresses
> itself to Red Hat Enterprise and SuSe Enterprise distributions but so far
> FC4 seems to be working correctly.

  Yah, despite claims to the contrary, Linux is pretty much Linux.  In
particular, FC is basically just the proving ground for RHEL, so
they're pretty similar.

> .. so I'm beginning to think
> the RAID controller driver aacraid, works properly.

  I've used several Dell PowerEdge servers with that driver without
trouble.  This was a year or three ago.

  Oh, yeah, See Also:

http://linux.dell.com/
http://www.domsch.com/linux/

-- Ben