ServeRaid 5i support and possible IBM agreements
807559Feb 22 2005 — edited Apr 6 2006I was going to install Solaris 10 x86 on an IBM xSeries 345 server for running Java-based application server + database (JBoss+MySQL) when I've found that ServeRaid 5i controller is not recognized by the OS and, infact, it does not find the disks during the install process.
Is it possible that a SCSI controller like this (very common on IBM servers) is not supported? Yes, it is.
And it's very strange that I can run on these servers FreeBSD 5.3 which supports perfectly all the peripherals...
So much advertising on Solaris 10 x86 and it doesn't support IBM ServeRaid... why won't you tell this to customers in your advertisement campaign?
Why won't you tell you took some marketing agreement with IBM to avoid so many people will use Solaris x86 on IBM eServers but stuck on Linux?
Please, tell us...
Fabio