Subject: [compaqandlinux] 3200 Smart Array and Intergrated Smart Array Problem
From: K. Todd Meckling (ktm@n2h2.com)
Date: Fri Jun 2 20:10:04 2000
Hello List, I recently had a problem with several new Compaq DL380s. I found a work around but the solution is sub-optiomal. Here is the situation. I have a DL380 with six nine Gig drives, lots of RAM and both a Integrated Smartraid card and a Smartraid 3200 card. I built the server so that all six drives were attached off the 3200(faster) card and no drives were attached to the integrated board. Smart Start recognized this configuration and had no problem with it. I built my logical volume on the 3200, wrote the system partition and prepared to install Redhat 6.2. This is where the problem began. Redhat's boot disk found the SCSI controller and raid controllers correctly and loaded the approprate modules. However, when it came time to run fdisk, no writable disk was found. The only option listed was /dev/ida0/c0d1. The installer couldn't find a device for the 3200 card with the logical volume on it. Interestingly enough, switching virtual terminals to the command line let me see that both cards were reported in /proc/arrays. ida0 was the integrated card and ida1 was the 3200. I booted into bios and disabled the integrated card. Configured like this, RedHat said there was no block device at all, but /proc/arrays still reported the card. In the end, I simply removed the integrated card from the motherboard. With it gone Redhat correctly identified the 3200 card and let me install to the logical volume. This worked fine for this application, but I can imagine situations where I would want to use both. My suspicion is that the problem is in the cpqarray driver but I can't prove it. Any insight on what may be going on? Are there perimeters I could have passed to the driver to correctly identify both controllers? Any thoughts would be appreciated. -- K. Todd Meckling Systems/Network Operations N2H2 Inc - ktm@n2h2.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: compaqandlinux-unsubscribe@cpqlin.van-dijk.net For additional commands, e-mail: compaqandlinux-help@cpqlin.van-dijk.net
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