Manual

54 MediaShield User’s Guide – Version 1.0

HAPTER 5

MediaShield RAID Frequently Asked Questions

Known Issues

•TheNVIDIAMediaShieldapplicationrequiresFirefoxversion1.5orlater.

PreviousversionsofFirefoxexperienceamemoryleakwhenexecutingCGIprograms,

whichcausesMediaShieldtohangifleftopenforseveralhours.Thelatestversionof

Firefoxcanbefoundathttp://www.mozilla.com.

• UninstallanyolderversionoftheNVIDIARAIDdriver

andMediaShield

applicationbeforeinstallingthenewversion:

Runʺrpm‐eNvRaid‐XXXʺtouninstall

Runʺrpm‐ivhNvRaid‐XXX.rpmʺtoinstall

Youshouldalwaysrebootyoursystemafterinstallingoruninstallingthedrivers.

•GPTFormat isrequiredforarraysoflargercapacitythan2TB.

Ingeneral,FDISKonlysupportsupto

2TBbecauseitusesMS‐DOSpartitiontable

format.ApartitiontoolthatsupportsGPTformat(forexample,Parted)shouldbeused

forarrayswithalargerstoragecapacitythan2TB.

•Bootablearraysizelimitation

• ForRHEL4,bootarraysmustbe2TBorless.

RHEL4releasenotesstate

thatthisisalimitationfortheRedHatinstaller.

• ForSLES10,bootarraysmustbe1TBorless.

• RHEL4X‐Windowmayterminateafteraperiodoftime.

UnderRHEL4Update4,32‐bitplatform,sometimestheX‐Windowisterminatedby

thesystemafteralongperiodoftime

ifthesystemRAMsizeis4GBorlarger.

UpdatingtothecorrectX‐Windowgraphicsdrivercansolvethisproblem.