adaptec hardware raid 1 29320a hostraid

[Cyber Source]

also, I also think Tony has some sort of hardware issue other than the 
SCSI controller, as he said it froze, etc. I know that the drives he has 
are definitely questionable and if memory serves, the mobo in that 
particular box he is using to try this stuff on is pretty bad as well.
Tony, if you want to play with that stuff again, give me a call, I've 
been swamped lately but I'll make some time for that, I wanna play with 
the RAID stuff too.

Cyber Source wrote:

> Why need to make a boot disk and not just create a new initrd image 
> after the boot with the module? Bob Meyer and I figured that one out 
> one day.
>
> 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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