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font-family:Arial'>Good morning ,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>I am in the middle of a validation of RAC with logical and physical
dataguard with Grid control.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>Standard db and data guard + manual setup is ok<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>GC is now ok<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am now on the RAC part - I am in the middle of configuring
the firewire device for the shared disk.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>I have read the README and my queries are in line:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<pre><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>To use on Oracle Enterprise Linux 4:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>1) Download a kernel module rpm. Make sure your down the right kernel module<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> for architecture (i386, x86_64), and processor configuation (UP or SMP).<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>My RAC conf is 2 x Intel 32bit boxes, TI firewire cards and a Maxtor One Touch 250GB – <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font size=3 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I have installed the latest OELinux 2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.EL<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>I have then downloaded and installed: <a
href="http://oss.oracle.com/projects/firewire/dist/files/RedHat/RHEL4/i386/oracle-firewire-modules-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL-1286-1.i686.rpm">oracle-firewire-modules-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL-1286-1.i686.rpm</a></span></font><font
size=3 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#3366FF'><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>Currently up2date would not give me 42.0.3.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>I would also have to perform a manual apply as the machines are on an isolated network with no internet.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>2) Install as follows, as user root:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> rpm -ivh <filename.rpm><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>It installs drivers in /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.3.EL<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font size=3 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I have tried the infamous copy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font size=3 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I copied the files into the /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.EL directory.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font size=3 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>As such an ls shows the kernel/drivers/ieee1394 in my 42.0.0.0.1 kernel’s directory structure.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font size=3 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Although I still have no entry at boot in dmesg<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>3) Load the firewire modules:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> modprobe ohci1394 ; modprobe sbp2<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>modprobe returns FATAL not found<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>At this stage I need some assistance as my device is obviously not seen.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>Do you have any recommendations?<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font size=3 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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color:blue'>Peter<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font size=3 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font size=2
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> You can also just reboot, hotplug should load the module automatically<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> for you.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> This should load the firewire stack and detect the disk. The disk will be<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> shown as a scsi device, /dev/sdXX, if you are unsure which device, the<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> dmesg command will show the detected disk. e.g.:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>ieee1394: sbp2: Maximum concurrent logins supported: 4<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>ieee1394: sbp2: Number of active logins: 0<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Vendor: IBM-DJNA Model: -371800 Rev:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 06<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SCSI device sda: 35239680 512-byte hdwr sectors (18043 MB)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>sda: asking for cache data failed<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>sda: assuming drive cache: write through<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> sda: sda1<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Attached scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>5) if you wish to use this setup for Oracle RAC, just follow the standard<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> documentation for RHEL4/EL4.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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