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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RE: Problems with Dell Server
Date: Fri Jul 27 13:20:03 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010727131956.F30350@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFCF57744B.46B1F58F-ON85256A96.005FCEF2@pitts.bayer.com>; from joe.derosa.b1@bayer.com on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:34:41PM -0400

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:34:41PM -0400, joe.derosa.b1@bayer.com wrote:
> After doing some poking around,
> None of the modules (including megaraid) detect any hardware.
> It appears that the embedded controller is a 7899 dual channel controller, that
> can have one channel use hardware raid. The bios banner calls the controller a
> "Power Edge Expandable 3/Si Bios 2.5-0". If I disable raid, the drives all show
> up as individual drives on the 7899 channel A using the AIC7xxx controller.
> Reading in the kernel source, a couple of the drivers (old an new AIC7xxx)
> mention that then specifically don't work with the hardware raid controller, but
> none of them say they do.  So, I can get the drives to work by disabling raid,
> or moving to channel B, but I would like the hardware raid for speed.

I'll email Justin Gibbs and see if he can give us any insight.

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			



  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-27 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-27 11:37 [gentoo-dev] RE: Problems with Dell Server joe.derosa.b1
2001-07-27 13:20 ` Daniel Robbins [this message]
2001-07-27 13:30 ` Hendrik Visage

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