Re: kernel headers package
mandag 14 februar 2005, 13:39, skrev Gavin McCullagh:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Ragnar Wisløff wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of such a card that they could recommend?
> >
> > There are several. Just make sure you have 64 bit PCI slots (you should
> > with brand new hardware), since most of the multi-NIC cards have that.
> > Otherwsie be very particular about your spec when ordering. (I've been
> > burnt :/)
>
> Noted thanks. I'm, starting to think this might be the best bet.
>
> > I think it is a shame that IBM releases a mainstream Intel server with
> > hardware that is not supported by the standard kernel, if that is what
> > they have done. So much for the dinner speeches about Linux support in
> > that case.
>
> It seems that some people see little or no difference between proprietary
> 3rd party binary drivers and standard, free kernel drivers. I guess those
> people haven't had to use/patch them much. I'm surprised broadcom have not
> released the drivers (even with limited functionality). I would have
> thought it was in their interest to smooth the use of broadcom drivers in
> linux (or any OS for that matter).
>
> > If you have not installed a separate RAID card (serveraid 6i is what I
> > see mostly in new IBM servers), then the Adaptec card on the motherboard
> > will allow you to do RAID 1 with something they call hostraid. This
> > hostraid thing does not work. When installing the installer says it
> > cannot find any disks to partition. If you got your disks partitioned,
> > you should be fine.
>
> Worked totally smoothly for us. We went through the (apparently
> linux-based) CDROM config tool which asked us what sort of RAID we wanted
> and offered to place Windows drivers on the disk for us (we politely
> declined). We just said 'RAID 1' and it configured that. When we rebooted
> and put the Skolelinux CD in, it just saw one drive (the RAID1 one) and
> partitioned and installed on that.
If you have an IBM ServeRAID card in the server it will have loaded the ips
kernel module and there will be an entry in /proc/scsi/ips/0 that gives a bit
of info about the controller.
>
> > If you managed to get hostraid working I'm very keen to understand how
> > you went about it.
>
> Right now I can't tell you any more than the above really. I have yet to
> get to installing the disk monitoring/reporting utilities which are on the
> cdrom.
Heh, IBM Director is a challenge for a weekend :)
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Ragnar Wisløff
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