[Wylug-help] HP proliant

[linux at sh2515.plus.com]

I am not using the Compaq proliant for RAID so I have taken out the array
controller card, and everything is fine.


> Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>>
>> On 23 May 2008, at 12:35, Scott Hodgson wrote:
>>
>>> How do you get Fedora 9 to reconise scsi array controller, as when I
>>> go to install it can't see any drives?
>>
>>
>> Have you used the array config utility (part of smartstart) to
>> configure the drives into an array first.
>>
>> The controller and cpqarray driver presents the prebuilt arrays to linux
>> as disks under a slightly strange dev name (not as a sda node).
>>
>> Things may possibly have changed now since I have not installed
>> a distro to one of these systems since the ide/scsi merge, but I
>> haven't seen anything that leads me to believe this would have
>> changed.
>>
>>     Nigel.
>> --
>> [ Nigel Metheringham             Nigel.Metheringham at InTechnology.com ]
>> [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]
>>
>>
> yes I used the smartstart5.5 on my compaq proliant g1 (with no bios on
> it) and started the manual config to linux, however ubuntu sees it, but
> don't understand why fedora doesn't so i can't install it to anything.
> there is an advanced option for iscsi but don't fully understand it.  My
> belief from what i have read is that iscsi is a hard drive on another
> system not the one in the server i want to install on.  is this correct?
>
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