Re: Compaq Smart Array & RH6.1

["Anh (Ly) Vuong" <avuong cisco com>]

Hello Louis,

Following url might help: www.geocities.com/rlcomp_1999/

Cheers,
A.Vuong
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Louis Fung wrote:
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> hi, all
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> Hardware RAID help, please. Thanks.
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> I have a Compaq ProLiant 2500 Server using 2x PPro200mhz, 128MB RAM, Compaq SmartArray 2/E EISA Card with 2x 4.3G and 1x 2.0G HotSwappable HD.
> but I cannot install RedHat 6.1 or SuSE 6.2, they both cannot see my Smart 2/E.
> Under RedHat 6.1, I tried to use "Expert" installation mode, and select SCSI, then select "Compaq Array", give it parameter 0xC8000, machine just stay there...
> or else, if I don't mention "Compaq Array", it cannot see any of my HD.
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> Anyone experience with this Compaq SmartArray and sucessful install RedHat on it?
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> I read the 2.2.12 kernel source document, it said I need to recompile the kernel with "patch"?! does anyone know do I need that patch? but how can I patch it if I cannot install it?
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> I had good experience with Software-RAID on both different machine. this is the first machine that I had a hardware-RAID controller.
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> any suggestion will be appreicated.
> Thank you for your time.
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> Louis
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