Date:  Mon, 02 Oct 2006 06:20:37 -1000
From:  Abdul-Rashid Abdullah <webmaster (at mark) muntada.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:07349] Re: Mounting Drive from RaQ 550 using USB  Enclosure to BQ Box
To:  "coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org" <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <C1466035.BE8D%webmaster (at mark) muntada.com>
In-Reply-To:  <0b4d01c6e614$dd588c20$0301a8c0@Jerrycp>
X-Mail-Count: 07349

Gerald,

I booted the Tyan up using Knoppix from a USB cd room.  Under /mnt I see

sda1-7
sdb1-7
sdc1-4

I figured A + B is the raid drives so that is why I see them twice.  I also
figure the sdc is the RaQ550 drives.

Now here is the thing.  I do not see any data on these drives.  However,
when I had the 550 drive hooked to another box that I ran Knoppix from, I
could see the data.

Any ideas?


On 10/2/06 1:21 AM, "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh (at mark) frontstreetnetworks.com> wrote:

> 
> You wrote;
>> 
>> The RaQ 550 used an XFS file system.  So I am sure that is the issue
>> here.  I don't believe out of the box CentOS is supporting this.  How
>> can I enable this then?
>> 
> CentOS (RHEL) does not support XFS, unless you install a kernel that
> supports it.
> Assuming this is a test server, and you won't mess thing up...
> The only XFS support I can find in the standard CentOS repos is for X11
>    xorg-x11-xfs.i386
>    So you could do yum install xorg-x11-xfs.i386
>    And you may need to install an Xwindows desktop.
>    yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
>    or
>    yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
> 
> You may be able to connect a VGA Monitor, USB mouse, USB keyboard and a
> USB CDROM
> And be able to boot Knoppinx on your Tyan from the USB CDROM
> 
> We keep a PC running Debian, that supports XFS filesystem
> You can also use a PC booting Knoppix 'live CD' to work on RaQ550
> drives.
> 
> Gerald
>