Support for supermicro 7501 based boards and issues with 3ware raid cards

[Vincent Touquet]

Note that they also have a web based tool called 3DM,
in which you can do everything you want to (the same
and more options as in the BIOS).

So you could do all your RAID setup on your nodes
in early user space, so after you loaded the kernel ?

Its probably possible to do it before you load the
kernel. I'm quite optimistic that you could get
some support from 3ware on this front as they
are in general very good citizens :)

best regards,
Vincent

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:31:09PM -0800, Schafer, Christopher L wrote:
>Unfortunatally it is the only way to build raid arrays on the controllers. You can recover arrays from the os but not build them.
>
>I will contact 3ware and see what they think...
>
>Thanks
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	steven james [mailto:pyro at linuxlabs.com]
>Sent:	Wed 3/26/2003 3:20 PM
>To:	Schafer, Christopher L
>Cc:	linuxbios at clustermatic.org
>Subject:	Re: Support for supermicro 7501 based boards and issues with 3ware raid cards
>
>Greetings,
>
>The 7501 chipset is supported, but the setup will probably need some
>tweaking for the Supermicro. Currently, it's for Intel Clearwater
>(se7501sw2).
>
>The 2Ware BIOS tools will likely not work under LinuxBIOS. Are they
>actually necessary, or just a convieniance (I've not worked with it)?
>
>G'day,
>sjames
>
>
>
>On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Schafer, Christopher L wrote:
>
>> Linux BIOS Team,
>> 
>> I was wondering if there is any active work on the above Supermicro
>> boards and are there issues with accessing the 3ware raid controllers
>> bios tools if one is using linux BIOS?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Chris Schafer
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