[Firewire-users] Oracle RAC on RHEL3 or WBEL3

Wed Feb 18 18:19:36 CST 2004

Yes 

I have an original WD 120 GB drive as used by Wim.  

On the bottom is printed WD1200B002

Coleagues who have bought newer copies of what is supposedly the same drive have failed to get mutiple logins to the drive.  I don't think the PCI cards are an issue here.

What does work is the Lacie 120 Gb drive.

My associates are persuing Wetern Digital about this.  I think they changed something and my guess it it is to with the corruption issues with MAC OS.

I will let the group know if I discover anything more definite.

P.S. If you are using OCFS put your vote disk on raw.

Regards

Bruce

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Vedal, Ramesh, IG 
  To: Ty Eckard ; Chapman, Kyle 
  Cc: firewire-users at oss.oracle.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 5:52 PM
  Subject: RE: [Firewire-users] Oracle RAC on RHEL3 or WBEL3

  I did buy a western digital firewire disk and ieee 1394 adaptec firewire cards for about 300$. I could connect to firewire disk using any node but unfortunately was not supporting mutiuser.  I was told the sbp device that I purchased was not supporting mutiuser. We completed the tests using NFS instead of firewire for tests,

  My suggestion test the device before the warrany ends. Best of luck.

  Ramesh
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Ty Eckard [mailto:jon.eckard at oracle.com]
    Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 9:31 AM
    To: Chapman, Kyle
    Cc: firewire-users at oss.oracle.com
    Subject: Re: [Firewire-users] Oracle RAC on RHEL3 or WBEL3

    Any Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller should work.  For the drive enclosure, I've heard that the combo (firewire/USB2.0) are sometimes a little unstable with OCFS.  I recently bought a MicroNet 160GB combo for a little over $200 (US).  It has worked well, so far.  I haven't yet put an OCFS filesystem on it, though.  I'll post my testing results here when I do.

    Chapman, Kyle wrote:

it used to work with 2.1 than was broken...  it now should work on 3.  we trie to get the 2.1 stuff to work but went with a scsi cluster to test with.  we have a prod cluster with sun/veritas with 91 on emc disk thats quite nice.  im going back to the firewire again as we have all the hw sitting around.  we used adaptec 4300 cards (t1 chipset) and oxford 911 chipset firewire disks.  as long as you have rhel3 running with the cards/disks with the correct chipsets, from the recent firewire test binaries, you should be good.

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Hildebrand [mailto:josh at newgistics.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 11:27 AM
To: firewire-users at oss.oracle.com
Subject: [Firewire-users] Oracle RAC on RHEL3 or WBEL3

This mailing list doesn't seem to get much (if any) traffic, so I'm not sure
who is out there.  I thought it couldn't hurt to spark a conversation.

I'm tasked with testing out an Oracle RAC solution this quarter.  I need to
get some hardware ordered, and I'm curious if people out there wouldn't mind
helping me determine what the "best bang for your buck" out there is with
regard to:

Large Firewire hard drive that's compatible w/ at least 2 nodes and sbp2.
Firewire PCI controllers (compatible for this solution)

Also, I've been reading up Werner Pushitz's site (http://www.puschitz.com)
and have been floored with his installation details.  Totally fantastic.
However, I want to combine two of his articles and make Oracle 9i RAC on
RHEL3.  Actually, I plan on putting it on either White Box EL, or CentOS 3,
since this is just for a test environment.  Obviously production would get a
real SAN and RHEL3.  Does anyone have any tips on putting RAC on a couple of
WBEL3/RHEL3 boxes?  I see that Manish Singh released new kernels for RHEL3
to include the firewire clustering code.  So, it must be feasible.

Thanks in advance!

--
Josh Hildebrand
Senior Network Engineer
Newgistics, Inc... The Leader in Returns Management Solutions
512-225-6044
Newgistics, Inc. Company Confidential

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