Hi, does someone have experience with SL (Pro or SLES) on the Thunder K8S Pro (S2882G3NR-D) (http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8spro.html) together with an areca ARC-1160 (Intel IOP331 based) 16-port SATA RAID controller? Most of the components will work just fine, I just wonder about the on-board Sil3114 SATA and Intel IOP based RAID controllers. The manufacturer of the 16-port adapter claims Linux support (RH, SUSE) but which drivers are the correct ones? The Sil3314 should work with the sata_sil driver, right? When I installed my Asus A8V board I had to manually load libata and sata-via before firing up YaST during installation, I assume that's the same here. As for the ARC-1160, I have a certain idea after browsing the kernel source of my SL92 and SL93 machines (and googling all along, for sure). The machine in question will have all 16 disks attached to the 16-port controller, I can only assume that it should boot off this adapter too. The manufacturer seems to have drivers available on ftp://60.248.88.208/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/Linux/DRIVER/Suse-9.0-SLES-x86-64 and ../Suse-9.2-Professional-x86-64_Beta. Hmmm ... as it seems, the driver is _not_ contained in the standard kernel tree (as opposed to what the vendor says on http://www.areca.us/news/html/release_5_6_05.htm - "The Linux and FreeBSD driver have integrated in the kernel tree.") Which means my customer is tied to a specific kernel version, and loses the arcmsr driver on each YOU kernel update :-(( Hence, each kernel update would involve installing the most recent kernel source, integrating the arcmsr source code, modifying some source files, rebuilding and praying. SUSE: no support whatsoever. Andreas (Jaeger), any idea how we could help the customer in this case? Anyway - which distro should I be going for? SLES9 makes no sense IMHO because the machine is not certified hence no support in any case. SL92 is slightly more recent as far as the kernel, the rest is pretty much on the latest identical SUSE9-CORE level. Thanks for any hint! Ciao, hm -- Year, n.: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
On Saturday 30 July 2005 18:40, Harald Milz wrote:
does someone have experience with SL (Pro or SLES) on the Thunder K8S Pro (S2882G3NR-D) (http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8spro.html) together with an areca ARC-1160 (Intel IOP331 based) 16-port SATA RAID controller?
I have something slightly different: a K8S Pro SCSI with two 3ware SATA RAID controllers in use (one 12 port for the data partition with 2 RAID 5 systems and two hot spares, one 4 port for the OS partition with two mirrored devices - I don't use the on board SATA RAID controller). Difficulties I experienced: * The BIOS wasn't set to ACPI 2.0 (timer problem) * To initialize both RAID arrays, I had to insert the RAID controllers one by one, since the 3ware BIOS only tries to initialize the array on the disk it found, and the second card doesn't run. Reverting the PCI-X boot sequence in the BIOS could also work. The 3ware controller is supported fine by SuSE. -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/
Bernd Paysan
On Saturday 30 July 2005 18:40, Harald Milz wrote:
does someone have experience with SL (Pro or SLES) on the Thunder K8S Pro (S2882G3NR-D) (http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8spro.html) together with an areca ARC-1160 (Intel IOP331 based) 16-port SATA RAID controller? I have something slightly different: a K8S Pro SCSI with two 3ware SATA RAID controllers in use (one 12 port for the data partition with 2 RAID
Unfortunately, the ARC-1160 is set by the customer. Has anyone tried the driver from the Areca web site, and how stable is it? --
Harald Milz
wrote: Unfortunately, the ARC-1160 is set by the customer. Has anyone tried the driver from the Areca web site, and how stable is it?
I'm pretty much a linux noobie and used the source from Areca to build a driver for 9.3 Pro x86_64. Their support was very helpful which was just as well as I didn't have a clue. I've got 5 workstations here all with Tyan K8WE + Areca PCIe RAID and BBUs running stably for a few weeks. They all boot off RAID5. Only thing I've noticed is that the BIOS RaidSet name gets corrupted at least in the boot up POST on all machines. Doesn't seem to affect the operation. HTH, Matt matthurd@acm.org
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Bernd Paysan
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