Subject: Re: [compaqandlinux] 3200 Smart Array and Intergrated Smart ArrayProblem
From: K. Todd Meckling (ktm@n2h2.com)
Date: Tue Jun 6 22:16:30 2000
After taking a look, I'm sure this is my problem. It seems strange that Redhat hasn't fixed it yet. You would think they would be pretty motivated to keep the installer working on Compaq. Thanks for the info. "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 -- K. Todd Meckling Manager of 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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