I have worked with Dell systems for a long time. If you are not familiar
with Hardware RAID controllers the biggest thing to know is that they
obscure what's going on from the OS. So, in this case, choose NO RAID
during your BQ install and you should be fine.
Dell does put out Linux drivers/software to help manage the RAID while the
OS is up and running but I have no experience doing this with Linux.
Therefore, I can't tell you if it has a CLI interface and if it would work
perfectly with CentOS/BQ. Don't worry too much, when you are bringing up
the system, Dell does have an interface that allows you to see the RAID
controller, etc.
-Rashid
On 4/8/08 1:14 PM, "Jeremy Knope" <jerome (at mark) rainstormconsulting.com> wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:09 PM, Tony Clements wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I need some help getting BQ installed on a Dell 1950.
>> The problem I'm having is the unit has a Raid controller thats not
>> supported in the stock install. The 1950 is a new server for me so
>> far I've tried disabling the Raid in the bios but then there are no
>> drives seen on the install. Has anyone had any luck installing BQ on
>> Dell 1950 with raid or raid off with BQ raid software only?
>> Sincerely,
>> Tony C.
>
> We have a Dell 1950, but I just checked and it's not one with a raid
> controller, using software RAID. We have other dell servers, newest a
> 2950 with a PERC 6/i SAS RAID which works fine (RAID enabled in BIOS,
> RAID 5), CentOS/BQ just sees it as one big drive. I would think if
> the RAID is enabled the system shouldn't care, just see it as a
> drive. Unfortunately I've only used hardware RAID on a dell 2850 and
> 2950. They all seem to use the same PERC controller though.