Topic: SATAII controller support

[frankb]

Is there a list of suported SATAII controllers or is there anyone who has experiance with SATAII controllers used with version 7.0?

I am planning to bye one bud I do not know witch one will work.

I tried the Adaptec 1420SA bud I had no luck. I do not have a valid driverdisk. The hardware is working fine. Just for test I installed Windows2000 , and that was working fine.

Best regards,
Frank

[Reinhold]

Frank,

Just remember that SME 7 is based on CENTOS 4
(www.centos.org) (centos-release-4-2.1.i386.rpm)

which is basically
Red Hat® Linux ES4.0
Red Hat® Linux ES4.0 - 64-bit
...rebuilt (iow cleaned and compiled from Open-Source-Sources)

Everything that does come with a RH enterprise option/driver should work.
Do a little search on CENTOS for sata 2...
http://www.centos.org/search.php?query=sata&mid=30&action=showall&andor=AND

and this may be what you want
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1560&forum=29&post_id=8238#forumpost8238

Be aware that VIA chipsets have serious trouble with Sata2 HDs - clearly stay away from SATA II-Mode VIA VT8237, VT8237R, VT6420 and VT6421L...

I have 2 Dell systems with INTEL 945G Chipset ... but they run in SATA 1 mode (even if Sata 2 ready) due to the HDs attached.

Regards
Reinhold

[CharlieBrady]

which is basically
Red Hat® Linux ES4.0
Red Hat® Linux ES4.0 - 64-bit

No, not 64-bit, just the 32bit build.

[frankb]

Reinhold

Thanks for the reply.
I already found the link http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1560&forum=29&post_id=8238#forumpost8238

Here they describe you how to install the driver on a running system (#1). Bud what I need is the driver disk (#2) because I want to install the software complete to the RAID drives.
I also did something similar for the driver disk bud the controller was not found when installing the SME software.

Also had problems after the update from 7.0pre1 to 7.0pre2 from the SME server. The installed and working Adaptec driver (#1) was panicking the kernel.
I removed the driver and did the ‘after update trick’ as described in the contibs bug reports.
No panic anymore, bud I never installed the driver again!  And start the searching to a supported controller.

So you are running SME Server 7.0 with a SATAII controller. Is the controller on board or is this a PCI controller card?

Witch one is it then?

Best regards,
Frank

[Reinhold]

sorry charlie: Just a little bit too much copy&paste ... but come to think of it: Why not  

frank,

For the time being regarding Sata I'd
0. ignore the sata1 vs sata 2 discussion ...there is no HD seeing the limits, much less stretch them
...as for hardware I'd go for
1. Intel
2. Silicon Image 3124
3. anything else that says "supported" here

As to "on/off board" it's neither ...or more or less "on board" ... since chipsets are "on board".
For Details have a look at http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/945g/

Regards
Reinhold

[Reinhold]

which is basically
Red Hat® Linux ES4.0
Red Hat® Linux ES4.0 - 64-bit

No, not 64-bit, just the 32bit build.

Just for the record - or if you, Charlie, want to do us all (yet another) favour  

There IS a 64-bit version of/on CENTOS

...and the Athlons at least come in quite cheap these days  

Regards
Reinhold

[CharlieBrady]

No, not 64-bit, just the 32bit build.

Just for the record - or if you, Charlie, want to do us all (yet another) favour  
[...]
...and the Athlons at least come in quite cheap these days  
[/quote]

I don't have one.

I'm unconvinced that there would be any significant advantages. The main reason you'd want 64bit is to allow very large applications and very large data sets. I don't think we have them.