[ILUG] Server installation...

[Lisa Muir]

Hi Guys,

I don't know why I try to do these things on a Friday afternoon when
I've been oven baked in my car on the m50, but I'm here now so must
continue...

I'm trying to install a SuSE business package on a new server. The
suse business package is old, and uses kernerl 2.4.19, and the server
is brand spanking new, with a couple of SATA disks running off an
Intel 6300ESB controller.

The controller has an LSI Raid Bios embedded, and I can raid the two
160GB's to raid level 1, which is what I want to do. I boot from the
CD, and it can't see any disks, just what I needed.

Intel have kindly provided binary driver downloads built for various
distribution versons, so nice of them. Threre is one tgz bundle which
might contain sources that I can build, but its tagged RedHat
enterprise.

Before I go there, I presume that if I load up the modules for the
chip at install time, that I'm going to see independent disks instead
of a Raid array, and that its an LSI driver that I need to see the
array.

But that poses the questions... will the LSI driver see the array if
linux can't see the individual disks, or are they presented to an LSI
driver through the BIOS. And then, how do you go about building a
driver for an embedded controller when you don't actually know what
specifically it is supposed to be. Ok, I can google / mine LSI for the
answer to that last bit, just being tired and lazy, but would
appreciate some input on whether I'm going to need the Intel
controller module for it all to work.

FWIW... the hardware is a fujitsu-siemens Primergy Econel 200, and its
tech specs state that the onboard controller is Intel 6300ESB Chipst,
and under description says LSI SATA SW-RAID 0,1 (for up to 2 x HDD's)

Thanks guys,

Lisa.