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Re: Vortex Raid Controller and XFS

To: Stefan.Sommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Stefan Sommer)
Subject: Re: Vortex Raid Controller and XFS
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 08:54:46 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Message from Stefan.Sommer@behrgroup.com (Stefan Sommer) of "Thu, 07 Jun 2001 05:55:47 PDT." <200106071255.f57CtlD31872@oss.sgi.com>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

You might try turning off devfs, this may be an issue with the raid driver
not being devfs aware. You can do a quick test by using the

        devfs=nomount

option at boot time. Going one step further, you can rebuild the kernel
with devfs turned off.

Hope this helps,


   Steve

> 
> Hallo XFS Team
> i tried to install XFS Redhat 7.1 on a PC Server with boot devices on a Vorte
> x RAID Controller.
> Install this configuration must be done by using the linux dd Installation mo
> de. Doing so,  the XFS Redhat  loads the driver disk, \(it seems so\), but wh
> en it has to create the file systems, it does not find any available disks. T
> he normal Redhat distribution woirks correctly. Must I have special drivers f
> or this Filesystem\?
> I got this driver disk from
> ftp.redhat.de/pub/rh-addons/driverdisks/rh71gdth.img.gz
> 
> I hope, there is a solution,  because i have to build a HA Linux File Server 
> with about 1 TB Filesystem in the next week
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Regards
> 
> Stefan Sommer



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