Support for supermicro 7501 based boards and issues with 3ware raid cards

[steven james]

Greetings,

It may be possible to do something with ADLO to get the BIOS tools
working. 

Something to watch out for will be the detection and initialization of an
existing raid on boot. If BIOS on the card is doing that, it won't work in
LinuxBIOS without an ADLO (or similar) solution.

I have delt with Promise fastraid under LinuxBIOS, but the best solution
there was to mod the kernel driver to make it be a JBOD and use the Linux
md driver for RAID.

Is the 3Ware genuine hardware RAID, or is it a softraid solution?

G'day,
sjames


On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Schafer, Christopher L wrote:

> Unfortunatally it is the only way to build raid arrays on the controllers. You can recover arrays from the os but not build them.
> 
> I will contact 3ware and see what they think...
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	steven james [mailto:pyro at linuxlabs.com]
> Sent:	Wed 3/26/2003 3:20 PM
> To:	Schafer, Christopher L
> Cc:	linuxbios at clustermatic.org
> Subject:	Re: Support for supermicro 7501 based boards and issues with 3ware raid cards
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> The 7501 chipset is supported, but the setup will probably need some
> tweaking for the Supermicro. Currently, it's for Intel Clearwater
> (se7501sw2).
> 
> The 2Ware BIOS tools will likely not work under LinuxBIOS. Are they
> actually necessary, or just a convieniance (I've not worked with it)?
> 
> G'day,
> sjames
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Schafer, Christopher L wrote:
> 
> > Linux BIOS Team,
> > 
> > I was wondering if there is any active work on the above Supermicro
> > boards and are there issues with accessing the 3ware raid controllers
> > bios tools if one is using linux BIOS?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Chris Schafer
> > _______________________________________________
> > Linuxbios mailing list
> > Linuxbios at clustermatic.org
> > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
> > 
> 
> 

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