Comments on: RHEL4 and DL320 embedded SATA RAID

By: User

User — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:13:33 +0000

Who know, how to install Red Hat on Hp Embedded Raid Volume? i have driver disk, but it not works when i install OS.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

We’ve been using a DL320G4 for a bit as an internal web app server, monitoring server for Windows Logs, a CVS repo and such.

You may want to consider going to the Software RAID solution on the box. I am fairly certain if it is using the Intel 82801GR (ICH7R) controller then it isn’t really using hardware RAID, but implementing it via the driver. So you end up with Software RAID using a proprietary solution.

Assuming the above is true, Linux software RAID will probably prove to have better documentation and more information should things go wrong with one of the disks in the future and you need to recover.

Here is a good link on FRAID:

http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/09/fake-raid-fraid-sucks-even-more-at.html

I am still looking forward to hearing how the move from the IIS box to a Linux box goes!

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jeremy,

The Sata disks from HP supports RHEL4 Update 2 now. I just tried it on my new DL320 G4 Server and it works.

With update 4 out now, I wish HP was on the ball and would atleast support Update3.

Kim

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Gday, just been through this myself, on a DL320 G5, and had to go back a version or two on the driver.

I have RHEL 4 Update 2, and could not get the installer to grab the driver from floppy. I tried one from the HP site (DL320 G5 drivers section), and the one from the "Proliant Essentials Foundation Pack" that comes with teh box, but neither gave me any joy. Did a bit of a search and found that this driver adpahci-1.2.5552.rhel4qu2.i686.img did the trick.

The HP site gives you adpahci-1.2.5571-1.rhel4.i686.dd.gz, which did not work for me.