Hi. I spent all day today fiddling with the AMI Raid controller. I'm using
Red Hat 5.1 and I sort of got it to work but there are a few problems. What
I did was use another machine with an ide drive to compile the kernel with
AMI Megaraid support, then I took the drive out of that machine and put it
into the machine with the actual AMI Raid controller. This had 3 x 9Gb
drives - using Raid 5 this was one 16Gb disk as far as Linux is concerned. I
booted to the ide and then made a partition and filesystem on the /dev/sda1
disk and could use it successfully. What I cannot work out is how I would
install onto it if I didn't have an ide hard disk around. Also I found the
speed to be about the same as a 2-year old Pentium 133 with non-Raid SCSI
drives, which was a bit disappointing but maybe the configuration was
incorrect. The driver sounds like a beta anyway.
I am hoping that a future release of Red Hat will have this driver as
standard then installation will be much simpler.
I don't know if this answers your question but I hope it is useful.
Regards
John Leach
Melbourne, Auustralia
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From: Andrew B. Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, 23 October 1998 14:04
Subject: Success w/ creating MegaRaid Controler Installation Disk
Greetings,
I finally created a Slackware boot disk. Now the question is does anyone
have information about Linux utilities to check on the status of the RAID
array?!? So far all I have is the driver for the MegaRaid controler, no
doc's.
TIA - Andy
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