Using centos 4.2. Trying to install pci sata raid card, Pacific Digital QM-4300R10. Raid card box reads that it supports linux. raid software has rhel 4.0 dd image. I write to floppy and use linux dd to "try" install drivers on my centos 4.2. I see the card in the list that centos gives me after loading the drivers, but when I try to use them, it doesn't do anything. Nothing works. I've read that rhel 4.0 drivers will not work on centos 4.2. What I do? Is it my sata drives or the pci raid card or both? What is recommended? Should one use regular sata drives and use them on the motherboard and use linux software raid? What do others use? and how? Should one contact Pacific Digital for correct drivers? Do i need to compile centos drivers from the rhel 4.0 drivers? Are there any pci sata raid controllers that work right out of the box on centos 4.2? duel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060110/69ce7306/attachment-0005.html>
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 09:56 -0800, Noel Sanchez wrote:> Using centos 4.2. Trying to install pci sata raid card, Pacific > Digital QM-4300R10. Raid card box reads that it supports linux. raid > software has rhel 4.0 dd image. I write to floppy and use linux dd to > "try" install drivers on my centos 4.2. I see the card in the list > that centos gives me after loading the drivers, but when I try to use > them, it doesn't do anything. Nothing works. I've read that rhel 4.0 > drivers will not work on centos 4.2. What I do? Is it my sata drives > or the pci raid card or both? What is recommended? Should one use > regular sata drives and use them on the motherboard and use linux > software raid? What do others use? and how? Should one contact Pacific > Digital for correct drivers? Do i need to compile centos drivers from > the rhel 4.0 drivers? Are there any pci sata raid controllers that > work right out of the box on centos 4.2? >First ... a dd image is used to do an image WHILE installing RH or CentOS. You need a different image for normal operations. Is this during an install of CentOS, or are you adding it to an already running server? Second ... Precompiled drivers are for a specific kernel version, and if you want to use the precompiled driver, you need to use the kernel it was built for. CentOS kernels WILL USE drivers compiled for RHEL AS IS. I tried looking up that card on the internet, but could find no drivers or website that was in English. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060110/21b51aba/attachment-0005.sig>
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[mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Noel Sanchez
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:57 AM
To: centos at centos.org
Subject: [CentOS] pci sata raid card
Using centos 4.2. Trying to install pci sata raid card,
Pacific Digital QM-4300R10. Raid card box reads that it supports
linux. raid software has rhel 4.0 dd image. I write to floppy and use
linux dd to "try" install drivers on my centos 4.2. I see the card in
the list that centos gives me after loading the drivers, but when I
try to use them, it doesn't do anything. Nothing works. I've read that
rhel 4.0 drivers will not work on centos 4.2. What I do? Is it my sata
drives or the pci raid card or both? What is recommended? Should one
use regular sata drives and use them on the motherboard and use linux
software raid? What do others use? and how? Should one contact Pacific
Digital for correct drivers? Do i need to compile centos drivers from
the rhel 4.0 drivers? Are there any pci sata raid controllers that
work right out of the box on centos 4.2?
duel
Duel,
In reverse order:
1) The 3ware 9500 and 9550 sata raid controllers work with Centos 4.2
out of the box.
2) If you can find the source code for the Pacific Digital QM-4300R10
driver that has
been used in Centos 4.0 it might, "might" compile properly on a
single disk 4.2 system.
You would then need to build a driver install floppy to get the
drivers for
a Pacific Digital QM-4300R10 that are needed during 4.2 install.
A detailed explanation of how to build an install driver disk is in
the knowledge base on 3ware's
web site.
You should contact Pacific Digital and see if they have an install
disk for RHEL 4.2.
It might work on Centos 4.2.
Best of Luck,
Seth Bardash
Integrated Solutions and Systems
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Colorado Springs, CO 80921
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719-495-5870 Fax
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Thanks for your help. This IS WHILE installing centos 4.2. I can't install centos because of this problem with the card or the drives (not sure which one). My install is i386 while the drivers that are on the software cd are rhel4 i686. The file is uploaded here: http://d.turboupload.com/d/269154/dd.img-i686.html -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:22 AM To: CentOS ML Subject: Re: [CentOS] pci sata raid card On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 09:56 -0800, Noel Sanchez wrote:> Using centos 4.2. Trying to install pci sata raid card, Pacific > Digital QM-4300R10. Raid card box reads that it supports linux. raid > software has rhel 4.0 dd image. I write to floppy and use linux dd to > "try" install drivers on my centos 4.2. I see the card in the list > that centos gives me after loading the drivers, but when I try to use > them, it doesn't do anything. Nothing works. I've read that rhel 4.0 > drivers will not work on centos 4.2. What I do? Is it my sata drives > or the pci raid card or both? What is recommended? Should one use > regular sata drives and use them on the motherboard and use linux > software raid? What do others use? and how? Should one contact Pacific > Digital for correct drivers? Do i need to compile centos drivers from > the rhel 4.0 drivers? Are there any pci sata raid controllers that > work right out of the box on centos 4.2? >First ... a dd image is used to do an image WHILE installing RH or CentOS. You need a different image for normal operations. Is this during an install of CentOS, or are you adding it to an already running server? Second ... Precompiled drivers are for a specific kernel version, and if you want to use the precompiled driver, you need to use the kernel it was built for. CentOS kernels WILL USE drivers compiled for RHEL AS IS. I tried looking up that card on the internet, but could find no drivers or website that was in English.