I just ordered some new hardware for our new Oracle (9i) database server. The RAID controller is an HP Smart Array 6404. I was planning to run SLES9 x86-64 on this box, until I ran into one small snag: I don't see any drivers for the SA-6404 for SLES9 yet! I see SLES8 drivers in both x86 and x86-64 flavors, and SLES9 drivers for the internal SA-5i controller, but not one driver for the SA-640x on SLES9. Has anyone installed SLES9 on a box with a SA-640x on it? What driver did you use? Does SLES9 support this controller out of the box, or do I need to wait for HP drivers? If I can't get a driver for this card, I will either have to run SLES8 or RHEL3 AS; neither option I much care for. -- Cameron Thorne
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 12:02, Cameron Thorne wrote:
I just ordered some new hardware for our new Oracle (9i) database server. The RAID controller is an HP Smart Array 6404. I was planning to run SLES9 x86-64 on this box, until I ran into one small snag:
I don't see any drivers for the SA-6404 for SLES9 yet! I see SLES8 drivers in both x86 and x86-64 flavors, and SLES9 drivers for the internal SA-5i controller, but not one driver for the SA-640x on SLES9.
Has anyone installed SLES9 on a box with a SA-640x on it? What driver did you use? Does SLES9 support this controller out of the box, or do I need to wait for HP drivers?
If I can't get a driver for this card, I will either have to run SLES8 or RHEL3 AS; neither option I much care for.
Wouldn't this controller use the cciss module? -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2) * PLEASE only reply to the list *
Ken,
Wouldn't this controller use the cciss module?
Yes, it does. But HP does not provide a binary driver for SLES9 (aka 2.6 kernel). Does the 2.6 kernel driver included in SLES9 work with this controller out of the box? -- Cameron Thorne
I wrote:
Wouldn't this controller use the cciss module?
Yes, it does. But HP does not provide a binary driver for SLES9 (aka 2.6 kernel). Does the 2.6 kernel driver included in SLES9 work with this controller out of the box?
And the corollary questions: What kernel version does SLES9 use? Is the kernel itself updated by YaST? -- Cameron Thorne
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