[96862] in RedHat Linux List
Re: MegaRAID controllers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Carlson)
Thu Oct 29 17:26:09 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:06:04 -0600 (CST)
From: Bill Carlson <wcarlson@kinzemfg.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <30423.909670016@splat.niehs.nih.gov>
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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Lance A. Brown wrote:
> > I'm setting up a DPT RAID controller for a Novell box, I am at this point
> > very unimpressed with their product. If you choose to go with them at some
> > point, make sure you buy their RAID cabinet, the controller is unable to
> > auto-rebuild an array if the drives are not in a DPT cabinet.
>
> I did not find this to be the case. I have run Red Hat 5.0 (this was a while
> ago) on an Intel system with a DPT PM3334UW card with a Kingston SCSI shelf
> attached. The Kingston shelf had 4 removable drives installed. I configured
> a RAID 5 diskset using 3 drives and set the 4th as a hot spare using the
> MS-DOS config utility for the DPT. I tested the recovery capabilities by
> unlocking and removing one of the disks in the RAID 5 while RedHat was up and
> running. The DPT beeped a few times and immediately added the hot spare disk
> to the RAID 5 diskset and commenced rebuilding the parity info. Worked great.
>
This is true, but to replace the downed drive you have to reboot to DOS to
get at Storage Manager. A good RAID should see a new drive and start
rebuilding the array on the fly.
> The only annoying this was the lack of a native Linux config/mgmt utility for
> the card. I had to down Linux and boot an MS-DOS floppy in order to run the
> DOS version of the dptmgr.
DPT told me this:
1) We do not support Linux
2) This guy at email@here is building the driver and is working on a
version of Storage Manager
Bill Carlson | Opinions expressed are my own
KINZE Manufacturing, Inc. | not my employer's.
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