Topic: Compaq Smart 532 Array controller

[Ari]

Hello all!

Hope someone can me out here... I've been beating my head against a wall trying to figure out how to get this server to recognize the array controller without any success.

Server is:
Dual-Processor Compaq Proliant ML 350 G2
w/ 4 36 Gb Hot-plug hard drives in a RAID-5 array
Compaq SMART 532 Array controller

Mitel SME 5.1.2

At any rate.. This is what I've done so far...
Tried doing a clean install, the Array controller is not seen at all. Only the internal SCSI channels are seen.

I've set up a pair of 9 GB SCSI drives in a RAID-1 software mirror to boot from, gone into /lib/modules/2.2.19-7.0.8smp/block and did an "insmod cciss.o" which seems to install the driver (according to Compaq, this is the driver).

When I do an lsmod, it lists the cciss module as loaded but says that it's unused and there's no /dev/sdc (sda and sdb would be the software raid-1 mirrored drives) which should be the RAID-5 array...

I've scoured Compaq's website, and the net looking for an answer and have come up blank. Can someone help me out? What am I missing?

Thanks!
Ari

[SamC]

I had a similar problem with a HP 1U server. It would install Win2k, but not any Linux distro. In the end, the problem was to do with the block size set on the hard drive(s) in the SCSI BIOS. Unfortunately, I can't remember what the block sizes were set to (or what they originally were), but changing that to the appropriate value, and then low-level formatting the drives fixed things. Sorry I can't be more specific, but maybe that will give you a place to look.

[Chaloner Hale]

My Compaq 2-DH SmartArray controller on 5.1.2 comes up as /dev/ida/c0d0.


Chaloner Hale