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<A title=r.v.maggio@worldnet.att.net
href="mailto:r.v.maggio@worldnet.att.net">Ronald Maggio</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=nflug@nflug.org
href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 23, 2002 6:43
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Alpha, additional notes and
a question...</DIV>
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<A title=peter@thecybersource.com
href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">Cyber Source</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:07
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Alpha, additional notes
and a question...</DIV>
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<DIV>Just wanted to cue in here and say that I experience a similar
situation on an UPGRADE. Bob Meyer and I worked on it and eventually found:
<BR>1. BIOS (Motherboard NOT scsi) played a vital role in handing the boot
process to scsi over ide <BR>2. On the upgrade, the necessary init link/file
was not passed to the boot strap. <BR>This was determined through various
steps but the most noticeable was when (after suspecting hardware failure of
course :)) was on a fresh install everything worked and booted fine. There
are only a handful of scsi adapter manufacturers (less than ide for sure),
it's not inconceivable to think they put all the adapter drivers on the
distros. </DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Well this is what I think is happening with Joseph's Alpha box.
First he was installing an OS other RedHat that may not have had the
drivers needed to set up the raid scsi card right. Secondly using
RedHat does not guarantee that either, but from what I understood it was
booting and not seeing the raid controller card? Plus it did not see
the drives. So lets say (if) the card was seen that does not mean that
the drives where set up correctly. When I tried to install the OS on mine it
saw the scsi controller but had a problem with the drives. The odds are
that in Joe's case that the raid scsi card not having
drivers available in the RedHat distro could be. But even if ( and
I'm no expert if the drives where or not setup correctly )
say if the card is seen, but if the drives are not set just right it
may or may not have an influence as to weather the raid scsi card functions
correctly. Also it could be a bad card who knows? I've yet to see
the box or see an attempt to do install in action on the box in
question. We'll find out in time the in's and out's of the
beast.</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>Till future correspondence. </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Ron:)</STRONG></DIV><STRONG><FONT
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<DIV><STRONG>P.S. Boy I dun type good...Not! Look at all the
typo's and not so perfect grammar. Its now 7am and I'm just
getting coffee. I think I should wait till I get some coffee in me before I
start writing.</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Ron:)</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 17:55, Todd Wirth wrote: </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><I>On the subject of RedHat
kernel having default support for a every SCSI adapter I disagree. We have
a Dell server running RedHat 7.2, although I wasn't involved in the
upgrade to a newer kernel (Dell provided), I know what happened through
various emails between Dell and our other IT guy. They tried 2 stock
RedHat kernels that did not work with our SCSI adapter, until finally the
3rd one did the trick. I was about to take over the project and just
compile a kernel, but that would have voided our support w/ Dell &
RedHat.</FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT color=#737373><FONT
size=3><I> </FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><I>I'm not too sure about the hardware as this server (besides a
Xeon) is in a remote office, but I did see the email traffic, and you
could tell the Dell guys were stumped. ;)</FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT
color=#737373><FONT size=3><I> </FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><I>-- Todd</FONT></FONT></I>
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