On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:54:06 +0100, Lisa Muir <34.24.34 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
Seriously hot outside indeed.
My marine tank has increased to 27.5 celcius, some of my SPS coral have
started to bleach!
Cannot believe I am thinking of installing a chiller, in _Ireland_!
> 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.
SLES8 is it then? If so then as Decco rightly said, no SATA support.
Further more, it will never have it.
> 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.
It assumes the kernel supports SATA then?
I would say you only real option is to go and roll your own kernel from
kernel.org.
> 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
The disks themselves should be hidden from the OS, all the OS cares about
is the LUN.
> 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)
Is it onboard? If so, can it be disabled (if your having probs) and used
as normal SATA?
That way you could use MD raid instead. It really works, stable as a judge
and is very fast.
You will still have to roll your own though.
But if you are using SLES, wouldn't it be better to go with SLES9 or
SLES10 which support SATA?
Certainly SLES10 does.
> Thanks guys,
>> Lisa.
Regards
Conor. - Sorry cannot be more help
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