adaptec hardware raid 1 29320a hostraid

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Also, correct me if I am wrong but all of the new 2.6 kernels (FC2) that 
I have played with, ALL had every RAID option turned on.

Michael Hanulec wrote:

> Hi..
>
> The 29320-R and 39320-R SCSI HBA's w/ 'HostRAID' features require one 
> the following:
>
> 1. A special version of the aic79xx, from the version 2.x tree i 
> believe, to be compiled.  This is NOT the default version which ANY 
> linux distro uses.  After compiling this software you will be able to 
> use the devices as just any other HBA.  If this is your boot device 
> you are going to need to add a IDE disk to the system, install FC2, 
> compile this new adaptec source for the -boot kernel and make a RedHat 
> boot disk for this card.
>
> ( This problems don't occur w/ any motherboard i've seen w/ onboard 
> 7902 Adaptec chips... but these boards also don't offer this RAID 
> feature )
>
> 2. Adaptec offers a VERY limited set of pre-compiled kernel modules 
> which require a specific kernel in order to get HostRAID to work.  I 
> think this is B.S.... and thus I don't recommend that anyone buy this 
> card if they want simple hardware RAID1 or RAID0 functionality.
>
>
> If you want a cheap hardware RAID (0 or 1) solution I would HIGHLY 
> recommend using the LSI LSI20320-R which offers a hardware raid via 
> the commonly found 'MPT' driver, this is the same driver used for 
> their expensive/full featured RAID card.  I think you might be able to 
> sell your 29320R and use your left over $$ to buy this LSI card as it 
> is almost 1/2 the price of the Adaptec solution.
>
> If any one has any other server level hardware questions wrt. Linux 
> support please ask away as I spend too much of my day debugging this 
> crap (although i secretly think its fun... just not when i have huge 
> deadlines to meet).  Some people on the list know me.. I'm a UB grad, 
> an ex-CIT undergrad Help Desk supervisor and after a few different 
> gigs here and there I'm now the Director of Technology and Production 
> at a San Diego, CA based 'white-box' PC vendor specializing in Linux 
> HPC clusters.
>
> Good luck w/ which either option you decide to go down.  I personally 
> would go buy that LSI card instead.
>
> -Mike
>
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> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, anthonyriga wrote:
>
>> Has anyone tried to setup hardware raid 1 with
>> hostraid enabled using  adaptec  29320 card? I have
>> succeded doing software raid hostraid disabled but
>> really want to use hardware raid for hot swapping. I
>> am able to setup the actual array but when I am
>> installing Fedora 2 it aasks you to load the aic79xx
>> drivers. I install the driver during the Fedora load
>> it hangs up and freezes. Any suggestions? It says on
>> the website that it supports hostraid but now Im
>> beginng to think it dosent. Any suggestions? HELP!
>>
>>
>>
>>
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