On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 10:59:33AM +0800, fooler wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "benj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 6:42 PM > Subject: [plug] SAN setup > > > > Hi, > > > > Has anybody set up a Storage Area Network on Linux? We have one in our > studio running on Windows NT. We now want it to run on Linux. But it's a > bitch having our linux box detect the disk drive array as local SCSI device. > > > > Mounting the disks as NFS share is quite easy, but we want them mounted as > local disks so we can format them in ext2 filesystem. > > > > The hardware we're using are > > > > nStor nextor 8FL external storage > > Qlogic qla2200 host bus adapter > > Chapparal K7132 RAID controller > > Gadzoox fibre switch > > > > Redhat 7.0 is our distro. > > hello benjamijn, > > redhat 7.0 default kernel installation doesnt include qlogic qla2200 > driver. you have to recompile the kernel and statically include the driver. > > fooler.
hi fooler, yup, noticed that too. so we downloaded the driver and installed the rpm as a loadable module. but we'll try what you said since i have a mind to recompile anyway. thanks for taking the time for this. benj -- Benjamin Oris Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ImagineAsia, Inc. http://www.imagineasia.com/ A Digital Animation Studio (632) 717 1111 loc. 222 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
