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RE: OT: USB/Firewire external hard drives for 10g RAC testing - a ny recommendations?

From: Nick Tilbury _at_ Northampton <_at_>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:49:35 -0000
Message-ID: <152194D388911C4B8D6368EC6511B9F602E81A74@nthex55.eng.vartec.com>


Regards the "current kernel version newer than it"

See a message below from our Linux admin ...........



Try rpm -ivh --oldpackage kernel-2.4.21-15.ELorafw1.i686.rpm

That should do the trick



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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of dba1 mcc Sent: 04 December 2004 15:25
To: mzito_at_gridapp.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: Re: OT: USB/Firewire external hard drives for 10g RAC testing - any recommendations?

recently I also test firewire hard disk with AS 2.1 and 3.0. I still have problem to make it work. I follow documents on
http://www.puschitz.com/ and still can NOT make firewire hard disk recognize by redhat. I did discuss with ORACLE RAC instructor and he told me use SCSI external disk instead of Firewire. He said SCSI disk far more stable than IDE (firewire). he said "ORACLE LINUX/RAC" course also use SCSI disk wirh United LINUX (will change to redhat AS3.0 soon).

My problem are:

  1. on AS 2.1 UP5:
    . load firewire driver successful
    . lsmod and lspci all indicate firewird
    adapter work
    . rescan-scsi-bus.sh can NOT find disk.
    . unload/reload firewire modules and rescan all
    make no difference.
  2. on AS 3.0 UP3 (2.4.21-20)
    . newest Redhat kernel (2.4.21-20 AS 3.0 UP3)
    does NOT understand firewire. I download kernel-2.4.21-15.ELorafw1.i686.rpm from ORACLE site and triied to install it and got error messages "current kernel version newer than it". (rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.21-15.ELorafw1.i686.rpm)

Can you tell me how cah you make 2.4.21-20 work without use ORACLE driver?

Thanks.
--- Matthew Zito <mzito_at_gridapp.com> wrote:

> 
> We do a lot of our non-software-development RAC work
> with Firewire  
> drives and the LaCie are the best, both in terms of
> performance and  
> stability.
> 
> The only real requirements are that the sbp2 chipset
> on the firewire  
> drive supports multiple login, which most these days
> do.  USB will not  
> work, by the way, only Firewire (though the combo
> firewire/USB drives  
> should work no problems).  The preferred drive we
> use is the LaCie  
> porsche:
> 
> http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10384
> 
> in varying sizes.  The big benefits are the small
> form factor, while  
> still being a normal hard drive, and the
> stackability.  It's also quiet  
> enough for our developers to share their desks with
> them without  
> complaining.
> 
> The last note is that if you're using redhat es/as
> 3, I'd recommend  
> upgrading to the latest version of the kernel, as we
> saw a number of  
> high I/O stability problems when dealing with
> multiple firewire drives  
> in our testing environment.  Upgrading to (looks at
> a node) 2.4.21-20  
> (the unsupported tree) fixed that entirely for us.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
> --
> Matthew Zito
> GridApp Systems
> Email: mzito_at_gridapp.com
> Cell: 646-220-3551
> Phone: 212-358-8211 x 359
> http://www.gridapp.com
> 
> 
> On Dec 3, 2004, at 3:33 PM, Paul Drake wrote:
> 
> > Need some space in a hurry, and I'd like to be
> able to play with RAC
> > over USB/Firewire.
> > This article  
> > http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/ 
> > hunter_rac.html#Hardware%20&%20Costs
> > recommends a Maxtor Onetouch unit.
> >
> > Anyone care to share their experiences?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Paul
> > --
> > http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
> 
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