Alle, I was wondering if anyone is using 4.X on any Fujitsu Primergy hardware and what type of experience they've had. I know that FJ provides separate drivers for all the supported hardware that are supposed to be RHEL4.X compatible, but I have my doubts. Best Regards, Camron Best Regards, Camron -- Camron W. Fox Hilo Office High Performance Computing Group Fujitsu America, INC. E-mail: cwfox at us.fujitsu.com
Hello Camron, we're running the following FSC Primergy Servers on CentOS 4: - a Primergy RX200 - a Primergy Econel200 for the RX200: the Adaptec HostRAID simply doesn't work. It seems to be more or less Software-RAID, so we use Linux' Software RAID for the Econel200: as there's only an onboard FRAID-Controller, we use an additional 3Ware 8006-2 for the drives Both machines work without any real issues so far. The RX200 was installed just after CentOS 4 RC1 was released, the Econel200 was installed january 2006. Regards, Andreas Rogge
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 09:48 -1000, Camron W. Fox wrote:> Alle, > > I was wondering if anyone is using 4.X on any Fujitsu Primergy hardware > and what type of experience they've had. I know that FJ provides > separate drivers for all the supported hardware that are supposed to be > RHEL4.X compatible, but I have my doubts. >I had one time to setup CentOS 4.2 on a bunch of Econel 200 (5 servers iirc). I had to modify the driver disk for the integrated sata LSI- Megaide raid 1 controller to work with CentOS 4.2 (because of a mismatch between CentOS 4.2 i586 kernel used during setup and RHEL 4.2 using a i686 kernel during setup : see http://www.arrfab.net/? topic=tutorials&id=centosdd) . I know that such controller is a 'fakeraid' adapter (and i told this to the customer but he wanted absolutely to use this one ...). On the other hand it's true that after having installed with this module i was able to look at the raid status without having to install third-party app (just a cat /proc/megaide/status iirc gave me the status). I also had to enter the Bios to force it to initialize the integrated Broadcom nic otherwise on a cold startup the machine frozed ... These boxes are running for several months now for this customer but i know he has just ordered several new ibm servers ... maybe because of my advice ... :o) -- Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>