Cannot install on 3ware raid

[Ed Greshko]

Robert Frank wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a 2 x intel quad core system with 32Mbytes of ram, 2 x 80GB disks
> and one 250GB disk.
> The two 80Gb disks were originally connected to a two port 3ware raid
> controller (don't know the number) and are now on the same SATA
> controller as the 250Gb disk.
> 
> From the beginning:
> After inserting the DVD with F7 x86_64, the 3ware raid controller was
> recognized and the 3w3xxxx driver was installed. The controller had been
> set up to use the two 80Gb disks as system disks mirrored (by hardware),
> so F7 saw this array as a single disk (sda).
> I could partition the disk (single /, single swap) and managed to get
> the setup to install grub on this disk
> Then I started the installation. The raid was formatted and then the
> installation went through in a blaze, so it seemed - in reality every
> package got a db4 error!
> 
> I deleted the 2ware raid and defined two single disks, using one for a
> test installation. I could then actually start the installation, but at
> the package named 'rpm' it stopped and hung, not doing anything. I could
> not see any kind of error on any of the consoles!
> 
> Now I am running the two 80Gb disks on the SATA controller and am using
> a sotware mirror for the root partition - installation fine, system is
> up and running!
> 
> I previously had FC5 x86_64 installed using the 3ware raid controller,
> which worked, though it was not possible to use rpm (rebuilt the dbs
> many times, cleanedup, did what was available on the net) - no use, rpm
> always generated db errors.
> 
> Now without the 3ware controller - so far no problems, evan after a yum
> update.

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