Installing Red Hat Linux with IBM ATA-133 RAID Controller - Servers and IntelliStation

Steps

1. Hardware Setup
   1. Update the firmware of the IBM ATA-133 RAID controller with the latest BIOS flash disk.
   2. Use the MegaRAID IDE Setup Utility (press Ctrl+M) to setup the drive configuration.
   3. Refer to the following example which shows:
      • Primary Master and Secondary Master set as a Mirror.
      • Primary Slave and Secondary Slave set as a Spare Pool.
   
   
   
   
2. Please read the following documents before proceeding with the configuration:
   1. IBM ATA-133 RAID controller - User's guide
   2. IBM ATA-133 RAID controller - Quick hardware setup guide
      
      
3. Follow these steps to Install Red Hat Linux v7.3.1 on the IBM ATA 133 / MegaRAID IDE 133 controller.
   1. Obtain the latest IBM ATA-133 RAID controller - Driver and documentation CD.
      Note: Version B of the CD has drivers for 7.2, 7.3, and 8.0 versions of Red Hat only.
   2. From the Red Hat 7.3 subdirectory, create the driver diskette using the RWFLOPPY command: RWFLOPPY -w filename.img
      Note: the Red Hat image file had to be renamed to something with a 7.3 DOS filename format.
   3. Boot the Red Hat Linux v7.3 CD-ROM disc #1, and type "linux dd" at the boot prompt.
   4. Linux will then ask if you have a driver disk. Select Yes. IDE MegaRAID and SCSI emulation support are loaded.
      Note: The IDE MegaRAID uses SCSI disk emulation for the IDE RAID devices. No IDE devices are detected from the MegaRAID controller.
   5. Install normally up to the point when it asks to partition with Disk Druid.
   6. Select Disk Druid.
   7. Red Hat asks to create an MBR on SDA. Do so. Only a SCSI hard drive that represents the IDE Mirror will be seen.
   8. Set up appropriate partitions in Disk Druid. Select option to continue the install. The install now proceeds as normal.
   9. When completed, no IDE devices for hard disks are present, e.g. /dev/hda or /dev/hdb. The CD-ROM attached to the onboard IDE is detected as /dev/hdc which is on a separate controller.