54 MediaShield User’s Guide – Version 1.0
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HAPTER 5
MediaShield RAID Frequently Asked Questions
Known Issues
•TheNVIDIAMediaShieldapplicationrequiresFirefoxversion1.5orlater.
PreviousversionsofFirefoxexperienceamemoryleakwhenexecutingCGIprograms,
whichcausesMediaShieldtohangifleftopenforseveralhours.Thelatestversionof
Firefoxcanbefoundathttp://www.mozilla.com.
• UninstallanyolderversionoftheNVIDIARAIDdriver
andMediaShield
applicationbeforeinstallingthenewversion:
Runʺrpm‐eNvRaid‐XXXʺtouninstall
Runʺrpm‐ivhNvRaid‐XXX.rpmʺtoinstall
Youshouldalwaysrebootyoursystemafterinstallingoruninstallingthedrivers.
•GPTFormat isrequiredforarraysoflargercapacitythan2TB.
Ingeneral,FDISKonlysupportsupto
2TBbecauseitusesMS‐DOSpartitiontable
format.ApartitiontoolthatsupportsGPTformat(forexample,Parted)shouldbeused
forarrayswithalargerstoragecapacitythan2TB.
•Bootablearraysizelimitation
• ForRHEL4,bootarraysmustbe2TBorless.
RHEL4releasenotesstate
thatthisisalimitationfortheRedHatinstaller.
• ForSLES10,bootarraysmustbe1TBorless.
• RHEL4X‐Windowmayterminateafteraperiodoftime.
UnderRHEL4Update4,32‐bitplatform,sometimestheX‐Windowisterminatedby
thesystemafteralongperiodoftime
ifthesystemRAMsizeis4GBorlarger.
UpdatingtothecorrectX‐Windowgraphicsdrivercansolvethisproblem.
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