Topic: SCSI

[eiceic]

Thanks DM,

The SCSI Drives that are not recognized by 7.21a are:

HP 146.8GB Ultra320 Universal Hot-Plug Disk Drive, 10K rpm

Chris Buechler

[DarkMirage]

that wasn't a reply huh?
Anyway I meant something like "286716-B22"
(which seems the one actually, so I'll go with that)

[DarkMirage]

Well, I just tried to find the drivers for you, but I couldn't find any.

I suggest you try for yourself
(you may always contact HP about CentOS 4.1 installation support)

If I get round to it, I'll still try to setup a driver disk,
as I believe it would be nice to have a mini-howto for that around here.

[eiceic]

DarkMirage,

Would it help I logged in under the 6.0.1 and run some command to see what driver it's using?  Is there maybe an analogous driver on the CentOS side?

Do you anticipate these kind of things being included in the default install for 7.0 later on?  This would appear to be a pretty generic machine - and one of the things that I've always liked about SME is that I don't have to muck around with driver disks/etc because it just recognizes most everything.

Thanks,

Chris Buechler

[DarkMirage]

What I was able to find while looking for your driver were some unsupported kernel-devel packages. I can't be sure this is exactly what you need, but it does indicate a possible modification of the iso to have it include the discussed drivers.

Since these drives still have (some?) popularity, I believe there is a possibility of these coming back into sme7. It, however, won't do that by itself.

Sme 6.0.1 is nothing close to Sme 7, by age if anything. I have no idea why CentOS no longer supports BusLogic (assuming that's the issue), and if anyone told me, I probably wouldn't get it (hdd's are a mystery to me). Drivers working on 6.0.1 may or may not work on sme7. It's like flipping a coin to me (without clearly seeing the outcome, you can only be so and so sure about such a driver's functionality).

So I'd say you have three options:
1. Use 6.x
2. Do some research and propose an implementation for such support to the sme7 developers...
3. All of the above  

Come to think of it...the LSI/BusLogic thing may have been about the controller... You might try looking up any drivers for that aswell...

[CharlieBrady]

I have no idea why CentOS no longer supports BusLogic (assuming that's the issue), and if anyone told me, I probably wouldn't get it (hdd's are a mystery to me).

hdd's isn't the issue, isn't SCSI adapter cards. It's RedHat which no longer supports BusLogic (CentOS just rebuilds the RedHat kernel RPM)- and it's because no-one is updating the BusLogic driver.

[DarkMirage]

no-one is updating the BusLogic driver.

Well, I get that  
Thanks for the explanation.

I wonder, is that driver available?
And offcourse, are those non-existent updates required to use it?

[CharlieBrady]

I wonder, is that driver available?

Sure it is. It's in the standard linux kernel source code. It's just that RedHat aren't putting it in their kernel RPM, because they can't support that adapter with their customers.

[gbentley]

Recently I had to buy some SCSI kit in the UK and was surprised how many Adapted cards listed where out of stock by dabs.com and scan.co.uk

I ended up buying a much more expensive card than I would have because order times where 2 weeks in some cases.

Is SCSI losing popularity generally to SATA ?