Re: Etch not booting on Adaptec 2420sa

2007-02-28 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, February 28, 2007 00:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Here [0]: 4. I have an Adaptec 1210SA SATA RAID card. Why doesn't Linux support my hardware RAID? The Adaptec 2x20 series are hardware raid cards, use the aacraid module, and to the linux kernel look no different to Adaptec SCSI

Re: Etch not booting on Adaptec 2420sa

2007-02-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 12:15:26PM -, Hans du Plooy wrote: On Wed, February 28, 2007 00:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Here [0]: 4. I have an Adaptec 1210SA SATA RAID card. Why doesn't Linux support my hardware RAID? The Adaptec 2x20 series are hardware raid cards, use the

Re: Etch not booting on Adaptec 2420sa

2007-02-28 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, February 28, 2007 14:22, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 12:15:26PM -, Hans du Plooy wrote: The Adaptec 2x20 series are hardware raid cards, use the aacraid module, and to the linux kernel look no different to Adaptec SCSI Raid cards that use the same driver.

Etch not booting on Adaptec 2420sa

2007-02-27 Thread Kyle Messineo
Hello, I just installed the latest etch distro (kernel 2.6.18-3-686) onto a whitebox intel pc running an Adaptec 2420sa raid controller and 4x sata 750gb hd's. The raid is configured as raid5 on three drives with the 4th running hotspare. The etch installer booted fine, saw the raid

Re: Etch not booting on Adaptec 2420sa

2007-02-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 07:16:50PM -0500, Kyle Messineo wrote: Hello, I just installed the latest etch distro (kernel 2.6.18-3-686) onto a whitebox intel pc running an Adaptec 2420sa raid controller and 4x sata 750gb hd's. The raid is configured as raid5 on three drives with the 4th

Re: Etch not booting on Adaptec 2420sa

2007-02-27 Thread Rob Wright
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 18:16, Kyle Messineo wrote: Hello, I just installed the latest etch distro (kernel 2.6.18-3-686) onto a whitebox intel pc running an Adaptec 2420sa raid controller and 4x sata 750gb hd's. The raid is configured as raid5 on three drives with the 4th running

Re: Etch not booting on Adaptec 2420sa

2007-02-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:58:49PM -0600, Rob Wright wrote: No suggestions for you, but I installed this exact card into a new SuperMicro server last week to use RAID 5 on 3 SATA drives. I had no trouble at all with it. The Adaptec card _is_ hardware RAID. My mistake. I take back what I

Re: Etch not booting on Adaptec 2420sa

2007-02-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 19:16 -0500, Kyle Messineo wrote: Hello, I just installed the latest etch distro (kernel 2.6.18-3-686) onto a whitebox intel pc running an Adaptec 2420sa raid controller and 4x sata 750gb hd's. The raid is configured as raid5 on three drives with the 4th running