This weekend I set up my new virtual hosting mail server. I purchased a LSI Logic MegaRAID SATA 150-4 RAID card and a pair of Maxtor 250GB SATA drives. During the CentOS setup (using the 4.3 Server CD), it would hang on formatting the /boot partition. I tried this a few times, always hanging on the same spot. So just for fun, I tried the 4.2 Server CD, and it worked perfectly. I then updated to 4.3 no problem. I have no idea why simply formatting the /boot partition would hang the 4.3 installer. I have installed 4.3 on several machines. Oh well.
LSI Logic RAID card problem and solution
June 25th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Tags: Are you kidding me?
2 responses so far ↓
1 targz // Aug 4, 2006 at 5:45 am
Did you get the proprietary LSI drivers to work with this card for CentOS 4. Their support site only has drivers for RHAS 3, ie. 2.4 kernels. If not the proprietary drivers, what management options come with the Linux driver?
2 sleach // Aug 19, 2006 at 8:40 pm
I used this tool:
http://www.ibiblio.org/john/megaraid/
to check the health of the RAID card in my Nagios setup.
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