Topic: SCSI Raid Controller Problems

[treyh]

Hello Everyone  

I am setting the following Server with SME 6.01

(2)intel boxed xeon 3.2ghz 1m 800fsb CPU
(2)73GB 10k rpm 68 pin SCSI Hard DRives
52 speed cd-rom
Megaraid 320-1 Single Channel SCSI Raid
1gb DDR333 pc2700 Memory (512x2)
raid = 1

When Installing the first message I get is:

"No hard drives have been found. You probably need to manually choose device drivers for the Installation to succeed, would you like to select drivers now?"

The options are Yes and NO. After Choosing Yes it pauses, initalizes the floppy for only 1 second, and then continues. After a few screens (country, language, agreement, etc) I get this error:

"An error occured - no vaild devices were found on which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem."

Here is what I've done so far:
1. rebuilt the raid
2. installed winxp to verify the raid was working
3. formatted the drives and rebuilt the raid
4. I put the RAID drivers, from the lsi logic's site, for redhat 8, on a floppy but that didn't work. I was hoping it was like a winXP install, after asking if I want to manually choose the drivers it would search all media to try and find it.
5. put the *.img driver in the SME ISO, I didn't know where to put it so I put it in every directory with no luck still

My next step would be to try SME 6.5 but I'd prefer to stay with the stable version of 6.01.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Here is the download page for the drivers (remember I tried using the drivers for redhat

http://www.lsilogic.com/downloads/selectDownload.do;jsessionid=388988DB7451941CC98B5418C92081EE

[Brenno]

I had a similar problem installing 6.01 on a Dell Precision Workstation with 4x18.2GB Seagate SCSI drives and some RAID controller I can't remember now (Compaq?).  The problem was that no matter how I configured the RAID with the RAID software, SME would always install on a single disc (or mirrored if the option was chosen.) My solution was to install as mirrored and add the extra two discs later

That being said, I have a Compaq Proliant 6500 with a RAID 5 and SmartArray 221 controller that installed beautifully.

You mentioned you were using the drivers for RH8?  I'd check the hardware compatibility list for RH7.3 to see if your RAID controller is listed on there (I think 6.01 is based on RH7.3)

[treyh]

Thanks for your reply. It pointed my thoughts into a new direction.

I searched the manufacturer's website and there are no drivers for rh7.3...the closest was rh8  

Here is what I'll try monday morning.

1. setup the primary 1 drive with SME
2. then setup the raid, adding the 2nd drive for raid 1

I'm sure i'll have to "tinker" with the settings but this might work. I'll let everyone know my steps.

[treyh]

well just using the scsi raid controller as a scsi controller didn't work.

I've switced to a scsi controller that is known to work with SME.

I'm going to keep trying and I'll let everyone know.

[filouFX]

Hi,

I'm using SME 6.01-01 on a NEC 120LG with a securaid 321 ( it's a megaraid 320-2, the same 320-1 but bi-canal ).

How I succed to instal SME :

When your computer boot, insert SME CD; then press shift key (the left one) and when the prompt appear enter : accept dd.

At this point, you must have a disk with driver. I'm using mega 118h driver version for RH 7.3 and the megaraid controller is detected and work fine with raid 5.

[thomas_chan]

Hi filouFX,

1) The controller we used is Adaptec and HostRaid enabled, please advise how to find out the proper driver to install SMEServer 6.01 ?

2) Once I type 'accept dd' at Boot prompt, it will only prompt to search the driver from Diskette. Is it possible to search from CD ?

Thanks!!
Thomas

[filouFX]

Hi,

1- I used RawWrite to generate drivers for floppy disk. It's on SME CD in \dosutils. The mega raid drivers I used were already compiled and "zip" (dud-rh73-118h.gz). I remenber to "unzip" and with RawWrite I build disquette driver from dd.img file.

2- I don't think it's possible, but you can extract from your adaptec CD drivers compatible with RH 7.3.
If not try to search if NEC have compatibility with your hardware :

http://www.nec.co.jp/express/linux/120lg/02/120Lg_RH73.html

If not, you must compile your drivers from .c and .h with devstools.

Good Luck.