Hi, I am attempting to run Fedora 13 on a SunFire X4140 with an external Sun StorageTek enclosure with 7x2Tb disks. Fedora 13 boots of a single internal SAS drive.
The HBA is an Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 09). I have successfully created a RAID array using the adaptec BIOS. I have also successfully created a logical volume which is 7.99Tb. I attempted to create a filsystem on the the 7x2Tb RAID array from Fedora 13 but it didn't work. The computer hangs periodically and generates kernel warnings. I suspected that it is an issue related to the Adaptec RAID driver, so I downloaded the supported drivers from Sun. http://www.intel.com/support/go/sunraid.htm The most recent drivers for the external HBA adapter as supplied by Sun are at the level "aacraid_1.1.5_2463". I compiled these into the Fedora kernel today and recreated the filesystem, however, I had the same problem. I have installed RedHat EL5 on another partition to help with diagnosing the problem. I've rebooted into Redhat and created the filesystem using the same command. This seemed to run perfectly fine (however I stopped it early because it would take several hours to complete). The baseline version of the Adaptec driver installed by Redhat EL5 is "Adaptec aacraid driver 1.1-5[2437]-mh4" It appears that there are no hardware issues with the 7x2Tb array. I would prefer not to upgrade the firmware because it seemed to cause problems with RedHat EL5. Is there anyone in Sydney who had experience with running Fedora on Sun/Oracle Hardware? Thanks Robbie. Here are the Fedora 13 errors below. Code: [r...@petfire]# mkfs.ext3 -L mars /dev/mapper/vg_mars-lv_mars mke2fs 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009) Filesystem label=mars OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks 536207360 inodes, 2144799744 blocks 107239987 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296 65455 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 8192 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968, 102400000, 214990848, 512000000, 550731776, 644972544, 1934917632 Writing inode tables: 811/65455 Message from sysl...@localhost at Jul 13 12:15:46 ... kernel:Stack: Message from sysl...@localhost at Jul 13 12:15:46 ... kernel:Call Trace: Message from sysl...@localhost at Jul 13 12:15:46 ... kernel: <IRQ> Message from sysl...@localhost at Jul 13 12:15:46 ... kernel: <EOI> Message from sysl...@localhost at Jul 13 12:15:46 ... kernel:Code: e8 91 ed ff ff 85 c0 74 17 49 8b 84 24 60 01 00 00 89 58 44 49 8b 84 24 60 01 00 00 44 89 68 2c 49 8b 84 24 60 01 00 00 8b 58 44 <83> fb ff 75 cb b8 01 00 00 00 5b 5b 41 5c 41 5d c9 c3 55 48 89 817/65455 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html