Absolutely it works under debian. We had it running there with LVM, just not Proxmox. After bribing, they have kindly added support for it in the latest ISO. We are setting up a box with one now, and so far install is going smoothly. Will post results sometime tomorrow when the raid 10 is finished building.
New Proxmox VE kernels 2.6.18, 2.6.32 and 2.6.35 released to stable
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Absolutely it works under debian. We had it running there with LVM, just not Proxmox. After bribing, they have kindly added support for it in the latest ISO. We are setting up a box with one now, and so far install is going smoothly. Will post results sometime tomorrow when the raid 10 is finished building.
Areca should work with this kernel - http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/6527-New-Proxmox-VE-kernel-2.6.32-(pvetest)
Awesome!!!! Thank you! Can't wait to try it out!
Update: raid initialization is complete with the 6405 with bbu/zmm, in raid 10, using 4 sasII (6Gbit/s) 10K drives
pve24:~# pveperf /var/lib/vz
CPU BOGOMIPS: 100802.43
REGEX/SECOND: 719498
HD SIZE: 969.05 GB (/dev/mapper/pve-data)
BUFFERED READS: 408.83 MB/sec
AVERAGE SEEK TIME: 5.10 ms
FSYNCS/SECOND: 1485.37
DNS EXT: 62.97 ms
DNS INT: 17.05 ms (example.com)
Not sure if the partition alignment has anything to do with the pveperf i/o results or if this is the driver, but they are lower than we expected, and significantly lower than on native debian during our tests (we had ~4K fsync/sec with 8 sasII drives. (more drives, better i/o for this card)).
Anyway, fsyncs/sec is a good 25% lower with the Adaptec 6 series compared with the adaptec 5 series, with same exact hardware configuration (results for 5 series posted above).
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Any chance to get a Proxmox install .iso which includes the Areca 1880-series driver?
The controllers are now out since nearly a year and a capable kernel in the repository makes no sense when you are not able to install Proxmox on it....
Tried to do a bare metal install on system with adaptec 6805. The system did not boot. Got the message "Unable to create data volume at /usr/bin/proxinstall line 570". I read on the forum what others did to get their 6805 working. I confirmed with Adaptec support that the drivers in the kernel 2.6.39 support LVM on the 6805. My question is can I install Proxmox 1.8 build 6070-5 and upgrade the kernel to 2.6.39 or should I install the driver separately on a sata HD? Thanks in advance.
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"Unable to create data volume at /usr/bin/proxinstall line 570" - if disk partition >2Tb and label - gpt
Proxmox 1.8 build 6070-5 - dont support hdd >2Tb, dont use parted from create slice and dont support gpt partition
if need install Proxmox 1.8 build 6070-5 on big hdd, then install system on other sata hdd and mount raid to /var/lib/vz
or makelabel - msdos and use only 2Tb from raid...
Im install Proxmox 1.8 build 6070-5 on big drive:
- boot from liveCD OpenSuSe 12.1 (2.6.39) - create slice (vgcreate pve and lv - swap, root, data) and install system, install grub 2
- deleta all data from pve-root
- unpack from Proxmox 1.8 build 6070-5 iso - /usr/bin proxinstall and edit he (comment create slice and vgcreate), edited proxinstall copy to iso and burn CD
- boot from this CD and install Proxmox 1.8 build 6070-5 on system
Proxmox 1.8 build 6070-5 - dont support hdd >2Tb, dont use parted from create slice and dont support gpt partition
if need install Proxmox 1.8 build 6070-5 on big hdd, then install system on other sata hdd and mount raid to /var/lib/vz
or makelabel - msdos and use only 2Tb from raid...
Im install Proxmox 1.8 build 6070-5 on big drive:
- boot from liveCD OpenSuSe 12.1 (2.6.39) - create slice (vgcreate pve and lv - swap, root, data) and install system, install grub 2
- deleta all data from pve-root
- unpack from Proxmox 1.8 build 6070-5 iso - /usr/bin proxinstall and edit he (comment create slice and vgcreate), edited proxinstall copy to iso and burn CD
- boot from this CD and install Proxmox 1.8 build 6070-5 on system
Thanks FAN
I was not able to get system to boot with a volume larger the 2TB. I rebuild the raid 10 volume on the Adaptec 6805 and changed the size to 2TB and the Proxmox 1.8 build 6070-5 installed and utilized the 2TB volume without any trouble.
Thanks again
I was not able to get system to boot with a volume larger the 2TB. I rebuild the raid 10 volume on the Adaptec 6805 and changed the size to 2TB and the Proxmox 1.8 build 6070-5 installed and utilized the 2TB volume without any trouble.
Thanks again