The perc 5/i (the integrated controller) was recognized fine on my new PowerEdge 1900's by CentOS 4.something_or_other. Unfortunately, I need the non-integrated model to use the power vault. It's good to know that it comes down to being controller dependent rather than being a general pain with the powervault itself.
<br><br>Thanks<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Musone</b> <<a href="mailto:mmusone@shatterit.com">mmusone@shatterit.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The key from my experience with the dell perc controllers is to
make sure you've got a driver that recognizes the controller.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I've had to make my own boot/install disks for just about every distribution
because they are not built into the standard boot images.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">If you've got the controller recognized, it should be cake, but I
haven't ever hooked up that specific powervault so don't quote me..</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Mark</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
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nflug-bounces@nflug.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brad
Bartram<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 12, 2007 11:20 AM<br>
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<p>Hey guys;<br>
<br>
Does anyone here have any experience connecting a Dell DM1000 (powervault)
external storage array to a dell poweredge using the perc5/e card and centos
(or really any linux flavor)?<br>
<br>
I'm interested in specifically any gotchas or conflicts you ran into. Was
it pretty out of the box in terms of setting things up or did it just not work
at all? <br>
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Any info anyone has would be great.<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
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Brad</p>
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