Tech4Him { Technology With Integrity }

Yesterday we finished the installation of a new server. There has
been alot of discussion about how to install Ubuntu 6.06 onto a Dell
PowerEdge 2950 server with a PERC 5 RAID controller. Really the
discussion has been about support for the PERC 5 controller and linux
kernel’s earlier than 2.6.17. The megaraid_sas driver is needed but not properly handled in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.

Well, victory is ours….sort of. See our previous post.

The
long and short of it is that we ended up just removing that Promise
FastTrak TX2 controller card and placed the two drive on the built-in
motherboard controllers. Since we have some other devices we
piggybacked both drives from the same controller which is not going to
be as performance minded as put each drive on a different controller
but for this application it is fine.

Whew….this is a bit of an enigma right now. I know I read about some potential issues with this controller card but it is what we have to use. I thought those issue were primarily around driver support and bit write issues. What I did not expect was the difficulty in installing Ubuntu 6.06 LTS onto a mirror array created with the controller. Perhaps this is a symptom of the “poor driver support” issue?