From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Anthony W. Marino" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM System References: <20020304172754.K18939@kluge.net> In-Reply-To: <20020304172754.K18939@kluge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon Mar 4 16:39:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com, Theo Van Dinter On Monday 04 March 2002 05:27 pm, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 05:07:03PM -0500, Anthony W. Marino wrote: > > When I went to 3ware for 7800 driver for SuSE I didn't find one for that > > particular release. I found one for SuSE 7.0 and wonder if I could use > > that one for my SuSE 7.3 system. > > > > I think I found an reply to an old message from me that states it would > > work just fine. How do you like the 7410? > > > > What RAID configuration are you running? > > It's the 3w-xxxx kernel module. It seems to be standard in the 2.4.x > series kernels, I didn't have to do any compiling to get it to work. I > don't know what kernel the SuSE distros use though. > I don't understand. Are you saying the all the software I need is contained within my kernel or do I still need to get a driver from 3Ware? I'm running SuSE Mantel 2.4.18 which the changes text states it has 2.4.19-pre1 as well as XFS. > The 7410 works nicely. I only planned to do RAID1, so I didn't go for the > extra cache 7450. The only thing I don't like about it so far is the RAID > manager tool that you get from 3ware has a really terribly installation > script (let's figure out which distro I'm running on based on the kernel > version I'm running... yeah! ) So I haven't installed it yet. It's > also looking like they only have a GUI tool, which means it'll be difficult > getting a monitor setup to watch for failed disks. :(