Last week we tried to install Centos on a brand new HP ML150 G2 with AIC-8130/ Marvell SATA Raid card and it was a no go. We tried a few other flavors of Linux as a test and all had trouble as well. Unfortunately time didn't permit so we opted for a Windows solution to get the box into production. We have never had a problem with IDE and Embedded SATA (Non Raid) Next time we want to research the SATA compatibility a head of time. Any suggestions? What cards have worked for you? Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060711/bb3f8369/attachment-0002.html>
Any input on the HP AIC 8130 problem? Thanks. _____ From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Chris Heiner Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 8:47 AM To: centos at centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Hardware Raid cards RAID 0 / 1 Last week we tried to install Centos on a brand new HP ML150 G2 with AIC-8130/ Marvell SATA Raid card and it was a no go. We tried a few other flavors of Linux as a test and all had trouble as well. Unfortunately time didn't permit so we opted for a Windows solution to get the box into production. We have never had a problem with IDE and Embedded SATA (Non Raid) Next time we want to research the SATA compatibility a head of time. Any suggestions? What cards have worked for you? Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060711/d439a0e1/attachment-0002.html>
Chris Heiner wrote:> Next time we want to research the SATA compatibility a head of time. > > Any suggestions? > > What cards have worked for you?Quick search of archives brought up : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-June/066087.html http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2004-November/043349.html There have been lots of others threads covering the issue. 3ware is generally a good bet, spoken highly off anywhere I've seen, and personal experience with them is excellent. Regards, Sean
Chris Heiner wrote:> Any suggestions? > > What cards have worked for you? >I'm using 3Ware cards in two different boxes. We've never had a problem with them. Do some searching on the list for 3Ware and you'll see they are very well supported Linux cards. <http://www.3ware.com/> Max
Chris Heiner wrote:> > > Last week we tried to install Centos on a brand new HP ML150 G2 with > AIC-8130/ Marvell SATA Raid card and it was a no go.you forgot to mention what the problem really was. and can you also post a 'lspci -v' for the machine ? - K -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
Quoting Chris Heiner <cheiner at networkdesignsinc.net>:> Last week we tried to install Centos on a brand new HP ML150 G2 with > AIC-8130/ Marvell SATA Raid card and it was a no go. We tried a few other > flavors of Linux as a test and all had trouble as well. Unfortunately time > didn't permit so we opted for a Windows solution to get the box into > production.You sure that Marvell thing was hardware RAID? Currently, Marvell SATA controllers are not supported by stock Linux kernel. There's a driver source somewhere on Abit's FTP server that should work (more or less) stable on 2.6 kernels. I'm talking here Marvell SATA controllers (including fake-RAID ones), not SATA based hardware RAID controllers (if Marvell makes any of those at all).> What cards have worked for you?Adaptec and 3ware solutins seem to work nicely. With Adaptec, I'd be carefull to get aacraid based card, not I2O. In my very limited experience, 3ware cards were not as flexible as Adaptec's aacraid based cards. The 3ware you configure once and that's it. With Adaptec, you can migrate data from individual drives into RAID arrays, expand arrays (even RAID-5), change RAID levels (migrate volume from for example RAID-1 to RAID-5) and so on. All while the host is up and running. Well, at least with those I had in my hands (like for example the SCSI based 2200S). -- See Ya' later, alligator! http://www.8-P.ca/