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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=337094217-18022004>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,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=337094217-18022004>My
suggestion test the device before the warrany ends. Best of
luck.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=337094217-18022004>Ramesh</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Ty Eckard
[mailto:jon.eckard@oracle.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 18, 2004
9:31 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Chapman, Kyle<BR><B>Cc:</B>
firewire-users@oss.oracle.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Firewire-users] Oracle
RAC on RHEL3 or WBEL3<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Any <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">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.</SPAN><BR><BR>Chapman, Kyle wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=midCEC4708048E79E4CB20CDB491567EA3C018BEC9D@mdg1ex03.g1.com
type="cite"><PRE wrap="">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 [<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="mailto:josh@newgistics.com">mailto:josh@newgistics.com</A>]
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 11:27 AM
To: <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:firewire-users@oss.oracle.com">firewire-users@oss.oracle.com</A>
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 (<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://www.puschitz.com">http://www.puschitz.com</A>)
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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