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<A title=peter@thecybersource.com href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">Cyber
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=nflug@nflug.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:07
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Alpha, additional notes and
a question...</DIV>
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<DIV>Just wanted to cue in here and say that I experience a similar situation
on an UPGRADE. Bob Meyer and I worked on it and eventually found: <BR>1. BIOS
(Motherboard NOT scsi) played a vital role in handing the boot process to scsi
over ide <BR>2. On the upgrade, the necessary init link/file was not passed to
the boot strap. <BR>This was determined through various steps but the most
noticeable was when (after suspecting hardware failure of course :)) was on a
fresh install everything worked and booted fine. There are only a handful of
scsi adapter manufacturers (less than ide for sure), it's not inconceivable to
think they put all the adapter drivers on the distros. </DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Well this is what I think is happening with Joseph's Alpha box.
First he was installing an OS other RedHat that could not have had the drivers
needed to set up the raid scsi card right, secondly not using RedHat
guaranties that either. But from what I understood it was booting not seeing
the raid controller card? and did not see the drives. Also (if) the card was
seen that does not mean that the drives where set up correctly. When I tried
to install the OS saw the scsi controller but had a problem was the drives.
The odds that in Joe's case of the raid scsi card not having drivers already
available in the RedHat distro to install could be, but even if ( and I'm no
expert the drives it not setup right ) the card is seen if the drives are not
set just right (may or may not have) an influence as to weather the raid scsi
card functions correctly. Or it could be a bad card? Who knows I've yet to see
the box or an attempt to an install in action on the box in question. We'll
find out in time the in's and out's of the beast.</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>Well till future correspondence. </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Ron:)</STRONG></DIV><STRONG><FONT
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<DIV><BR>On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 17:55, Todd Wirth wrote: </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><I>On the subject of RedHat
kernel having default support for a every SCSI adapter I disagree. We have a
Dell server running RedHat 7.2, although I wasn't involved in the upgrade to
a newer kernel (Dell provided), I know what happened through various emails
between Dell and our other IT guy. They tried 2 stock RedHat kernels
that did not work with our SCSI adapter, until finally the 3rd one did the
trick. I was about to take over the project and just compile a kernel, but
that would have voided our support w/ Dell & RedHat.</FONT></FONT></I>
<BR><FONT color=#737373><FONT size=3><I> </FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><I>I'm not too sure about the hardware as this
server (besides a Xeon) is in a remote office, but I did see the email
traffic, and you could tell the Dell guys were stumped.
;)</FONT></FONT></I> <BR><FONT color=#737373><FONT
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size=2><I>-- Todd</FONT></FONT></I>
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