RAID on RH8

This has not been too fun ... I have an ECS 755-a Mobo lying spare with AMD 64bit Ticker and mem bout a gig i think so hey, in all sensible wisdom a Linux file server is in order. I bought a Maxtor 6Y160M0 hard drive for it (using one on another set-up and their a good price) Hooked it all up and fired in a RH8 distro (only one I can get my hands on at the moment , North Scotland aint computer shop heaven) and im lucky to get ISDN to work as far as thinkin of DSL! So cant DL either) anyway all seemed fine booted up mem was stll good after being bagged and boxed. Well at least till I seen the no harddisk found error when i got to partitioning I remembered the drive is SATA, To prove i got is to partition an old 30 gig drive on IDE and it worked but i paid for this SATA drive and seems like the better option for a server. So basicly any hints on how I can get it to see the SATA drive ? Many thanks guys and HAppy New Year( all be it a bit late :P)

System
Mobo: Elitegroup 755-A
NB Chipset: SiS755
SB Chipset: SiS 964
HardDrive: Maxtor 6Y160M0

Thanks again :P

Howdy!

AFAIK, SATA did not exist when RH8 was first released so there isn't much hope of it locating your drive without patching the kernel.

A better idea would be to download the latest free RH release, AKA: Fedora Core 3. This will use a version 2.6 kernel and it will support the latest hardware.

yeah thought this might happen. Thanks very much , I have read about patching the kernel to add support but thats way past me. Think Ill see what I can find in the way of magazine discs, if all else fails it will be a 64Kb/s download for me.
Thanks again :)

you could always try abuntu, they will even post a disc out to you for free
http://ubuntulinux.org/

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yeah thought this might happen. Thanks very much , I have read about patching the kernel to add support but thats way past me. Think Ill see what I can find in the way of magazine discs, if all else fails it will be a 64Kb/s download for me.
Thanks again :)

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Look for this month's issue of Linux Magazine. It comes with the FC3 Dvd.


It should be easy to get hold of in Scotland.

Thanks mate. Well I have to work in town on saturday but theres only a small newsagent. Theres a bigger one in the next town so should be OK to get Linux Mag think thats the mag i got RH8 from.

BTW on another note i got a more powerful system i got XP pro on and its a 64bit machine. What is the best distro available for 64bit because hell XP doesnt take much advantage of it and really hard to get their 64bit XP ??

Thanks again J0H4N

Just sent off for a Ubuntu disc thanks for the link Obiwan
:)

have a look at the suse 9.2 mirror list make sure you grab the x86_64 version.

raid will also work since it uses the newer 2.6 kernel.

Altho' I do prefer suse, mandrake 10.1 also has support for 64 bit systems. And as it happens that will be the disc included in next month's linux magazine. :lol:

In case suse is too much to dl, I mean.

LOL are you a sales rep for linux mag lol. Yeah thanks again. Im gonna go with the first distro i can get to and if and when i get holda suse (which seems prity recomended) or mandrake if i can get holda the mag and replace with that. I used to have a few systems on linux and was a main OS for a while but thats a few years back now so itll be good to see how things have changed :)
No more questions this post lol but will be in the linux section more often now :) :)

J0H4N
BTW downloading a OS is a bit heft for a 64Kb/s connection thx for the link anyway :)

:lol: no it's just the mag with the best coverdiscs I can get a hold of here

I had a look around now, and I'm not sure the 10.1 official disc with that mag includes the 64-bit support, if it's updatable for it, or if you need to dl a separate distro for that.

If the DL is a bastard to do, and if you can't get a good coverdisc that supports 64-bit systems, you can always order mandy or Suse. The pro versions aren't cheap, but it should be possible to get something that suits you that way.

EDit: it'll still run on a 64-bit system tho', I'm fairly certain.

EDitII: dunno what shipping from the us costs but this site offers distros for less than that mag'd cost. But since ubuntu offered the 64-bit version for free anyway and you prolly ordered that... :D D'oh

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:lol: no it's just the mag with the best coverdiscs I can get a hold of here

I had a look around now, and I'm not sure the 10.1 official disc with that mag includes the 64-bit support, if it's updatable for it, or if you need to dl a separate distro for that.

If the DL is a bastard to do, and if you can't get a good coverdisc that supports 64-bit systems, you can always order mandy or Suse. The pro versions aren't cheap, but it should be possible to get something that suits you that way.

EDit: it'll still run on a 64-bit system tho', I'm fairly certain.

EDitII: dunno what shipping from the us costs but this site offers distros for less than that mag'd cost. But since ubuntu offered the 64-bit version for free anyway and you prolly ordered that... :D D'oh

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Linux format's the best mag (imo) to get in the UK (and elsewhere if yer willing to pay imported costs) they had mandrake 10.1 in the december edition.. and so far it's not worked with my friends SATA drives,
with ubuntu his HD's worked but you have to create your own bootloader if you want multiple OS's on the computer
which as of yet i have yet to leran how to do it (mandrake doneded it for me :D)

The way it's been lately Linux format has been like an issue behind with the good stuff. That's why I've gone with linux magazine now.

But you have to get your own cover and print out the inlay yourself (hi-rez versions are available at the webpage).

It's all good tho', I'll buy both whenever I have the money.



I don't consider myself an advanced user so there's lots to learn.

Also, the mandrake in the december issue was the CE version, wasn't it? If it was the official might work better.