Thomas,

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Thomas E. Haynes wrote:

> 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.

That explains why SL does not support it so how is it working on RHEL 4 
then?

-Connie Sieh
> 
> I have kept two of our servers at SL 3 for this reason. The other two are
> happily running SL 4.
> 
> Regards...   Tom
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Hannon
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 8:13 PM
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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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