Re: Installing Fedora Core 5 Adaptec 29320A with HostRAID
- From: John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:53:29 -0500
CharlesBoyo wrote:
Hello.
I am trying to re-install a machine that previously had RHL9 with
Fedora Core 5. It has an Adaptec 29320A SCSI card with twin Seagate
73GB drives.
These are built as a mirrored RAID pair via the Adapter manager. And
they works together as a single device in RHL9.
However, all attempts to get this behaviour replicated in Fedora has
failed. It keeps seeing them as seperate disks (sda and sdb), even at
the pre-disk config stage where it asks WHICH RHL9 installation i want
to upgrade - sda or sdb!
Does anyone know how can I fix this behaviour? The Adapter site
doesn't have any drivers for Fedora even though they have a couple of
*minimally tested* images for RHEL and RHL9.
HostRAID is effectively software RAID that is done by the a320raid driver with a little help from the card's BIOS. Since the a320raid driver is closed source, you're limited to using it with the distros that Adaptec supports.
If you want to stick with Fedora, you'll have to use the (open source) aic79xx driver and then setup Linux software RAID on sda and sdb. (That is what I'd do, myself.)
If you insist on using HostRAID, you'll have to switch to one of the distros for which Adaptec provides the a320raid driver, not Fedora.
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