Subject: RE: [compaqandlinux] 3200 Smart Array and Intergrated Smart Array Problem
From: Jimmy Vance (jvance@paqnet.com)
Date: Fri Jun 2 23:07:35 2000
Charles, does RH6.2 have the latest cpqarray driver? I thought the driver that supports the array in the DL380 wasn't included in RH 6.2 Jimmy On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, White, Charles wrote: > I believe you will find the issue is that the install creates temp device > nodes in /tmp/ida, every controller is getting the same device number!!! > > I am unable to get red hat to talk to me about this... > > See bugzilla number 11304. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: K. Todd Meckling [mailto:ktm@n2h2.com] > Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 1:10 PM > To: compaqandlinux@cpqlin.van-dijk.net > Subject: [compaqandlinux] 3200 Smart Array and > Intergrated Smart Array Problem > > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: compaqandlinux-unsubscribe@cpqlin.van-dijk.net > For additional commands, e-mail: compaqandlinux-help@cpqlin.van-dijk.net > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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