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I wouldn't say it's useless - you can boot to the RAID array but only as |
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individual drives. Then you can LVM the rest of the drives together into a |
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semi-software RAID configuration if you like. I have heard rumors of people |
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getting it to boot from a real array but all I have read says it won't work. |
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the SRM console sees a bunch of drives and tries to boot from one of them. |
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This is my solution which may or may not work in your situation. I bought a |
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stand-alone 9GB SCSI drive brand new for $19 online - that is my boot drive. |
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Then I put my Mylex card in a windows box and created the array witth the Dos |
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tools. Moved card back to Alpha and set up under linux. Everything is good. |
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Scott |
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On Sunday 05 October 2003 10:12 am, jwsacksteder@××××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> Supposing the 230/plus is useless to me, what RAID controllers are |
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> supported in linux or booting on alpha platforms? |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Scott Seekamp [mailto:sseekamp@×××.net] |
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> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 12:37 AM |
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> To: gentoo-alpha@g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] new difficulties |
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> On Saturday 04 October 2003 10:33 pm, Scott Seekamp wrote: |
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> > I can vouch for that - I have a Mylex 960 which linux supports but there |
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> is |
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> > no way to get the RAID working properly or boot to it. If you can set up |
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> > the array on another machine and then move it over you should be able to |
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> > use it as secondary storage. |
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> > Scott |
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> > On Saturday 04 October 2003 10:08 pm, jwsacksteder@××××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> > > Ok, progress is being made on my install. I now have to cope with the |
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> > > 230/plus raid controller that is the primary boot device. My |
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> > > understanding is that it is a digital-rebranded mylex controller that |
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> > > is not supported under linux. Apparently it can't be flashed up to a |
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> > > recent firmware either. Is this still the case as far as anyone knows? |
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> > > Does anyone have one of these? |
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