RAID setup - Redhat 7.3 / 8.0

[Martin Glazer]

I have a ML310 with the ATA Raid controller, 4 x 80Gb HDD's setup under the raid controller to do Raid 1 (ie. 2 mirrored drives of 80Gb each).

On bootup I see the 2 Raid drives, but when attempting to install Redhat 7.3 / 8.0, Linux sees each individual drive and not the combined Raid drives.

Do I have to use Linux's software raid to install - the raid controller seems redundent then, or am I missing something in the install.

I have tried using the driver disk provided by Compaq, but still get the same results.

Any suggestions?

[Kodjo Agbenu · Accepted solution]

Hi Martin,

You do not need to setup software RAID. Hardware should be fine.

To have it work properly you may need the driver disk provided by Compaq/Hp :

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/hpLinuxcert-ml.html

Good luck.

Kodjo

[Steven E. Protter]

The gentleman is correct.

If you want to do software raid for some reason, its done from the disk druid stage of setup.

I've done it, and have a printed document at home if you want me to look at it and find the url.

sprotter@investmenttool.com

Identify yourself on the subject line.

btw, I'm running a web hosting business, including mail on Red Hat 7.3. The production server does use software raid.

Steve

[C. D. Tobola]

Martin,

In RH, you need to create a RAID drive in disk druid and then specify which individual drives are part of it.

I had difficulties with this on one of my HP systems. I finally had to remove the RAID card, then everything worked fine.

-Cloy

[Martin Glazer]

Thanks for all the responses -

I managed to find a raid driver on the Compaq / HP site and install Redhat 7.3 using the raid featurees of the onboard controller. I did not use the linux s/w raid as I was also going to try and attempt to use LVM (Logical Volume Management).

Problem I'm facing now is the driver is only for 1 specific version of the Redhat linux kernel and I can't upgarde the kernel (bug fixes) at all unless I find the source for the raid module. Anyone know where I can find it?

Martin