[Firewire-users] Oracle RAC on RHEL3 or WBEL3

[Bruce Carter]

Well the first thing we kneed to know is what drives you are using and what
interface cards you are using.  The interface cards are not usually the
problem.

We have found that the question is not as simple as Oxford 911 vs Oxford
912.

For instance the latest LaCie drives sem to work OK whereas the latest WD
drives don't although the earlier drives do.

It has crossed my mind that this might be worth a call to Oxford
Semiconductors and I will do this on Monday.

In the meantime can you call your disk manufacturer.  I know Western Digital
were stunned when they heard that anybody was trying to do this.

Regards

Bruce




  -----Original Message-----
  From: firewire-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com
[mailto:firewire-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com]On Behalf Of
Stephen.Mattin at ftid.com
  Sent: 05 March 2004 21:24
  To: josh at newgistics.com
  Cc: firewire-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com; Chapman, Kyle;
firewire-users at oss.oracle.com; Chapman, Kyle; firewire-users at oss.oracle.com
  Subject: RE: [Firewire-users] Oracle RAC on RHEL3 or WBEL3



  I have not tried the latest kernels Manish posted,
  but the linux1394.org site still lists Firewire 800
  (IEEE1394b) compatibilty as 'ToDo'.

  I have tried OxSemi 912 chips and managed to mount
  drives, but they quickly report lots (GigaBytes) of
  bus resets and various other errors.

  Stephen A. Mattin
  Stephen.Mattin at FTID.com
  603 770 3390


       Josh Hildebrand <josh at newgistics.com>
        Sent by: firewire-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com
        03/05/2004 03:59 PM


                To:        "Chapman, Kyle" <Kyle_Chapman at g1.com>,
firewire-users at oss.oracle.com
                cc:
                Subject:        RE: [Firewire-users] Oracle RAC on RHEL3 or
WBEL3



  Does RAC on Firewire work w/ Oxford 912 chipset?  I know oxford 911
chipset
  does.  Anyone tested their new one(s)?  I've read they have 912 and a 922.


  Oxford Semiconductor's OXFW912 FireWire800 (IEEE1394b) to IDE (ATA7)
bridge
  chip is enabling LaCie's new Big Disk Dual FireWire drive to achieve data
  transfer rates up to 88Mbyte/s.


  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: Chapman, Kyle [mailto:Kyle_Chapman at G1.com]
  > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:57 AM
  > To: Josh Hildebrand
  > Subject: RE: [Firewire-users] Oracle RAC on RHEL3 or WBEL3
  >
  > lacie disks advertise with the oxford chipset, ive used ones from others
  > as well...
  > the fedora1 stuff is supposed to work also so im downloading iso's for
it,
  > and since its free im going with that since lamo RH doesnt include
  > upgrades for free with maint on EL2.1, i dont feel like throwing $$$ at
  > "free" software for testing.
  >
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