Re: Lully

[Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>]

On Mon 06 Dec 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> They have upgraded it. In conjunction with Alpha Processor Inc, they
> installed a Dual SMP 666MHz 21264 w/ 512 meg of ram and 27G of external
> SCSI storage (3x8G in RAID-0).

Wow!

> The system is up right now, but I need to install a new kernel with
> the alpha RAID patches to mount the MD array - does anyone have any
> suggestions what kernel (patches?) should be used for this? Right now it
> is running a precompiled kernel from API.

If it's an external raid system, then no raid patches should be
necessary in the kernel; it should present itself as one (or more)
disks. Only if you want to implement the raid in software in the kernel
would patches be necessary. However, I don't believe any patches _are_
necessary! I've used the stock kernel to drive 3 disks in raid-0 mode
off an adaptec on an alpha, and that worked fine.

> Also, Steve at TLS is having some problems with getting it to boot
> properly - could someone volenteer to help him with BIOS issues?

I think Chris Chimelis <chris@debian.org> would be the best person
for that.


Paul Slootman
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