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 > -----Original Message----- > From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:owner- > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Hannon > Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 8:13 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Cc: [log in to unmask] > 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 > -- > Michael Hannon mailto:[log in to unmask] > Dept. of Physics 530.752.4966 > University of California 530.752.4717 FAX > Davis, CA 95616-8677 > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.17/84 - Release Date: 8/29/2005