I tried out a DTP SmartRAID V recently and had to go through nasty
gyrations tog et it working properly. I was totally unable to isntall
RH 6.1 because there is no support for the card in the standard kernel
and DPT did not have custom boot/driver disks available.
They do have disks for RH 6.0 so I went with that. The install went
fine using 'expert' mode so that I could force load the DPT I2O
modules, but blew up after rebooting because the installed kernel did
not have the I2O module. :-)
I ended up pulling the 2.2.13 kernel sources down to my workstation
and config/building a monolithic kernel with no module support and the
I2O and eepro100 drivers built in. I put this on a floppy, used rdev
to set the proper root device and booted the DPT-based server with
it. This got me up and running with networking so I could pull the
2.2.13 source tree from my workstation and build a 'normal' Red
Hat-style modularized kernel.
After all this is done, and I end up with a system that finally boots
properly, I learn that there is *no* online RAID management
capabilities in the I2O driver itself and DPT is still several weeks
away from having a Linux-based management program ready. This means
you have to reboot the system and enter the BIOS based RAID mgmt
program to do any kidn of rebuilds, etc. that *SHOULD* be handled
online.
I pulled that DPT card and installed a Mylex AccellaRAID 250 instead.
Works just as well adn the DAC960 driver that linux has for it
provides all the online management capabilities needed to keep your
system running and manage the RAID system properly.
--[Lance]
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