[Wylug-discuss] Linux on RAID

[Andy Macdonald]

Tim,

Thanks for this. Yes I'd gathered it was some kind of fudge and broke the RAID setup in the Promise BIOS, hoping to configure RAID in Linux. However, the machine is rebooting without warning during setup - F-S are asking me to use their setup - 'ServerStart' rather than try to install directly, but I haven't got round to trying this yet.

On Tue, 17 May, Tim Fletcher wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 14:06 +0100, Andy Macdonald wrote:
> > I've had some problems trying to install Novell (Suse Linux)
> > Enterprise Server on Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy RX100 with hardware
> > mirrored dual discs. This has a 'Promise' RAID controller that is not
> > supported by the 2.6 kernal apparently.
> 
> It's not a real RAID card, it uses the driver software to make the raid
> work, you can use the linux software RAID system to drive both disks in
> a RAID1 set instead of the promise drivers
> 

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