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Hi Ray,
It is a hardware raid.
Arjan,
Sorry about the RH9.0 question thought of it right after I hit send,
saw that one coming :-)
Lars
On 10/4/05, Ray <raypitt@(protected)> wrote:
> Is this hardware raid or software raid?
>
> Lars Bjaerris wrote:
>
> >Hi everybody,
> >
> >I have a coworker with a problem, but must admit that I'm not
> >experienced enough, with this kind of problem to give advice.
> >He's not on the list, so I thought I'd give it a go here and learn.
> >
> >So here goes:
> >
> >The box is running Redhat 9.0
> >Primarily running anaconda
> >Raid5 with a HighPoint 374 IDE RAID controller.
> >During boot fsck reports filesystem corruption on the root partition.
> >It has 2 partitions / and /boot
> >Disk drivers were added during anaconda install.
> >
> >Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >Lars Sorensen
> >
> >
> >#################### Email sent to me ###################
> >
> >The problem is that I have a HighPoint 374 IDE RAID controller
> >in the machine and it isn't possible to access the raid volume
> >unless I (a) turn off the kernels ability to auto-probe the
> >controller and just assign each of the six disks as their own
> >IDE devices (/dev/hd<x> you know), and (b) load the appropriate
> >kernel module from somewhere.
> >
> >(a) isn't very difficult to accomplish. It should suffice to
> >write something like "ide0=noprobe ..." or maybe "hdd=noprobe ..."
> >at the "boot: " prompt.
> >
> >(b) is a lot more difficult to make happen during booting.
> >
> >So, I tried loading the "hpt374.o" kernel module manually
> >using "insmod". No luck. There are at least three unresolved
> >symbols that have to do with the scsi driver, I think.
> >Note: this is the same drivers I installed the stupid machine
> >with originally! (Only I added the drivers in the installation
> >phase of "anaconda" where I could use the "Add driver disk"
> >feature).
> >
> >You wouldn't happen to know if it is possible to do the
> >"Add driver disk" *after* installation, do you?
> >(I.e. use some kind of program that would mimic what "anaconda"
> >does at installation, but doing it in "run time" so to speak.)
> >
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> >
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