Re: Proliant SATA

[Marek Podmaka <marki@onee.sk>]

Hello,

Wednesday, June 29, 2005, 14:34:14, Ian Forbes wrote:

IF> - We needed a second drive in each box to build the raid1 array.
IF> The HP price for a second SATA drive in a hot-swap module was VERY
IF> expensive compared to the special deal price that they had paid

  We bought the ML150 G2 without HDDs. So we bought 2 SATA HDDs +
  another 512MB RAM. Interesting is that our dealer had these hotplug
  SATA drives at very good price (only little more expensive than
  normal SATA drives), but they had it under HP's product code. It was
  cheap, because actually those were Maxtor HDDs in HP's hotplug
  "case".

IF> - We probably could have supported the hardware raid, but it would
IF> have meant downloading and/or compiling a special kernel, which

  Yes, there is binary kernel module supporting HW RAID. But I
  installed different module for the SATA controller (Marvell) and
  that doesn't support HW RAID, so I used md.

IF> - The NIC as I recall was a Broadcom gigabit device, and we found
IF> that it was supported by late kernels (after we had managed to
IF> identify the chipset and drivers required).

  Yes, driver tg3 from 2.6.12 works ok.

IF> - Then we tried removing the hardware raid and hotswap cards, and

  This server has add-on SATA card and hotplug front bay. But the
  disks works also without RAID being used.

  I wrote a HOWTO on installing sarge on this Proliant ML150 G2 with
  Marvell SATA controller:
  http://debian.catsanddogs.com/forum/index.php/topic,35.0.html
  
-- 
  bYE, Marki