Installing on scsi raid drives

[Alfred Hovdestad]

Make sure that you have the latest update of FC6.  I know with RHEL 4, we had to
have update 4 or 5 to see the RAID set.

   Alfred Hovdestad, RHCE
   University of Saskatchewan


Quoting dbrett at tcn.net:

> Ok this is beyond my knowledge.  I can look for the driver, but how do you
> load the driver manually?
>
> david
>
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Geoff Rainey wrote:
>
> > I have recently had the same problem with an Adaptec scsi raid
> > controller
> > (7901x) whereby the install would not detect the disks. Since this
> > Adaptec
> > Controller driver should have been available for this install, I had to
> > select "linux noprobe" to forcibly load the driver manually which
> > resolved
> > my issue - though caused another issue resulting in a kernel recompile
> > of a
> > kernel.org kernel.
> >
> > These issues are generally resolved by the availability of a "driver
> > disk" for
> > A piece of hardware from the manufacturer's website, such as the HP site
> > under
> > support and drivers, if you're using HP gear.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Geofrey.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of dbrett at tcn.net
> > Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2007 9:11 a.m.
> > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > Subject: Re: Installing on scsi raid drives
> >
> > Unfortunately, It does not see the drive.  It is a working drive because
> > it has an older version of another Linux running on it.
> >
> > On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Ali, Saqib wrote:
> >
> >> if it is a hardware RAID then you don't have to do anything. FC6
> >> should just see it as a single storage unit (Harddrive)
> >>
> >> I have few DL380 with hardware raid running FC6/RH4, and I didn't have
> >
> >> to do anything special.
> >>
> >> saqib
> >> http://security-basics.blogspot.com/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 8/29/07, dbrett at tcn.net <dbrett at tcn.net> wrote:
> >>> I am new to install FC6 on SCSI hardware RAID drives.
> >>>
> >>> I am trying to install FC6 on Compact DL380 with three discs in a
> >>> RAID 5 configuration.  When I try FC6 does not see the drive.  What
> >>> do I have to do for FC6 to see the hardware RAID disc?
> >>>
> >>> My search has come across anything useful.
> >>>
> >>> thanks
> >>> david
> >>>
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