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This sounds like it should work. I will try it out and let you know in |
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the morning. |
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Thanks a lot. |
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Matt Kotich |
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Yourhost.com CTO |
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email: matt@××××××××.com |
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phone: 714.842.8511x125 |
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On May 5, 2004, at 5:24 PM, Matt Hallmark wrote: |
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> It looks like It's a DPT SmartRaid V card. DPT was acquired by |
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> Adaptec a few years ago. |
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> See Link: |
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> http://computingreview.bizrate.com/marketplace/search/search__cat_id- |
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> -480,prod_id--5102547.html |
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> The help for CONFIG_SCSI_DPT_I2O: |
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> (formatting may be weird) |
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> This driver supports all of Adaptec's I2O based RAID controllers as |
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> well as the DPT SmartRaid V cards. This is an Adaptec maintained |
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> driver by Deanna Bonds. See <file:Documentation/scsi/dpti.txt>. |
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> To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the |
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> module will be called |
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> dpt_i2o. |
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> In gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.4-r1 it's in the scsi low level drivers and |
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> called: Adaptec I2O RAID support. |
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> Try booting up the livecd w/ "gentoo doscsi" and then "modprobe |
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> dpt_i2o". That should bring up your raid5 array as /dev/sda. :) |
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> Matt Hallmark |
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> Korey Pelton wrote: |
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>> Are you booting the LiveCD with "gentoo doataraid"? That's what I |
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>> did for my server that has a 3ware Escalade RAID controller. |
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>> Matt Kotich wrote: |
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>>> I work for a hosting company and we want to migrate all of our |
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>>> RedHat servers over to Gentoo (tighter installs, easier |
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>>> administration, etc) however we're running into some major |
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>>> showstopping issues. Booting from the 2004.1 LiveCD it seems that |
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>>> it is unable to detect the RAID5 setup that we have on our DPT |
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>>> PM1554U2 RAID adapter. What do we need to do to get it to see this |
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>>> so that we can start building the system? I've got a couple Gentoo |
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>>> dev servers up and running already, both single drive IDE systems, I |
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>>> haven't been able to get any of the RAID systems up yet (all running |
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>>> the same DPT card.) and I'm sure once I figure out how to load the |
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>>> drivers so that Gentoo sees the drive it'll be smooth sailing. |
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>>> |
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