Greetings...

RHEL dropped the support for the PERC card in the Dell 6300 when they moved
to 4.0. This seems an odd decision to me.

I have kept two of our servers at SL 3 for this reason. The other two are
happily running SL 4.

Regards...   Tom

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> Subject: Dell PERC RAID controller not recognized under SL 4.0 or 4.1
> 
> Greetings.  We're running RHEL AS on a Dell PowerEdge 2400:
> 
>      # cat /etc/redhat-release
>      Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 5)
> 
> The disk drives are SCSI disk drives, all of which are attached to a
> PERC RAID controller.  This particular RAID controller appears to be an:
> 
>      American Megatrends (AMI) PERC2/DC
> 
> There are four logical volumes (two mirrors, two RAID 5), presented to
> the OS as sda, sdb, sdc, and sdd.
> 
> The system BIOS and PERC BIOS are both at the latest stable levels (A08
> and 1.06, resp.).
> 
> We'd like to be able to run SL on all of our linux boxes.  As a step in
> that direction, we tried to install SL 4.1 on this PowerEdge.  Anaconda
> reports that it cannot find any hard drives on this system.  The SL 4.0
> installer reports the same thing.
> 
> As an experiment, we tried running the SL 3.0.5 installer.  That
> installer kvetches about the partition alignment, but it allows as how
> we can probably ignore the problem, and Disk Druid does indeed show all
> the existing partitions.  As we didn't really want SL 3.0.5 installed,
> we didn't take this any further.
> 
> It really would be best if we could get SL 4.1 installed.  If you have
> any suggestions about this, please send them to me.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 					- Mike
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