Re: redhat 8.0 and HighPoint372 ATA/133 RAID

["Shaun" <shaunb@xxxxxxxxx>]

yeah, I'm using the actual highpoint BIOS based RAID.  So by the time I'm booting into linux it only sees /dev/sda instead of /dev/hde and /dev/hdg.  uptime is of extreme importance, so the whole server and all it's little goodies are mirrored.

 

I DID have it working, but I was using ext3.  Had a dirty shutdown this week and when it rebooted, fsck tried to run and i get all sorts of neato errors.  So I'm basically starting from scratch again.  This time using ext2.

 

I'm just hoping there's been some activity in the last couple of months regarding this as the last time I installed I seemed to be alone on the matter.

----- Original Message -----

From: Jeff Kaplan

To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 10:59 AM

Subject: Re: redhat 8.0 and HighPoint372 ATA/133 RAID

is the entire OS on that Mirror?  Or is it Data only?

 

You can use the 7.3 drivers but you must "insmod -f %modulename%" for it to install on 8.0... I got mine working but the OS was NOT on the Highpoint Hard Disk... only my DB data was on the mirror, so 8.0 installed fine then I had to go back and install the driver manually for the OS to see the mirror and my DB data.

----- Original Message -----

From: Shaun

To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 1:45 PM

Subject: redhat 8.0 and HighPoint372 ATA/133 RAID

Hey list.

 

I have been using the hpt raid controllers for a couple of years now, and am rebuilding a system based on the SOYO Dragon motherboard with the onboard Highpoint 372 RAID controller.  I'm using 2 ATA/133 80 drives, and trying to install redhat 8.0.  It's a PHP/MySQL Apache server, so it's a mirrored RAID-1.

 

The highpoint site does not have an installation disk for anything later than 7.3, what do you guys suggest,

Installing 7.3 using the 7.3 driver disk from highpoint-tech.com, then upgrading to 8.0?

 

Anyone working on this setup as well?  I'd love to have somebody to compare notes with.