Topic: Installation issues with SME 7.x

[kenndenn]

Something happened to the drivers for an Adaptec aic-7880 pci-scsi card.  Other versions of linux see the hard drives configured, even SME ver 6.5 see the drives, but as soon as I try and install any of the 7.0 releases, it tells me it can't find the hard drives and need to load the driver.  But it already has a aic-7xxx driver loaded, so could it be a bad driver in the compilation of SME 7.x?

[cactus]

Something happened to the drivers for an Adaptec aic-7880 pci-scsi card.  Other versions of linux see the hard drives configured, even SME ver 6.5 see the drives, but as soon as I try and install any of the 7.0 releases, it tells me it can't find the hard drives and need to load the driver.  But it already has a aic-7xxx driver loaded, so could it be a bad driver in the compilation of SME 7.x?

Some hard drives are no longer supported by SME 7 and up, because the base OS (CentOS) does not support them anymore. This should be somewhere in the wiki FAQ I guess.

[kenndenn]

Something happened to the drivers for an Adaptec aic-7880 pci-scsi card.  Other versions of linux see the hard drives configured, even SME ver 6.5 see the drives, but as soon as I try and install any of the 7.0 releases, it tells me it can't find the hard drives and need to load the driver.  But it already has a aic-7xxx driver loaded, so could it be a bad driver in the compilation of SME 7.x?

Some hard drives are no longer supported by SME 7 and up, because the base OS (CentOS) does not support them anymore. This should be somewhere in the wiki FAQ I guess.

Bummer, these cards are not that old.  They'll be losing alot of users.  I for one think sme is a great distro.  I'd hate to loose the use of it cause they shifted to CentOS

[cactus]

Bummer, these cards are not that old.  They'll be losing alot of users.  I for one think sme is a great distro.  I'd hate to loose the use of it cause they shifted to CentOS

Are you sure it is the card? I think it might be the drives connected to the card...

[kenndenn]

Bummer, these cards are not that old.  They'll be losing alot of users.  I for one think sme is a great distro.  I'd hate to loose the use of it cause they shifted to CentOS

Are you sure it is the card? I think it might be the drives connected to the card...

Ultra SCSI drives no longer supported?  They are SCA-2 compliant.  I have used various sizes, 4.2, 9.1, 18.2 Gb.  If that's so, they should have stuck with the distro they used for releases 5 and 6.  Guess i might have to be satisfied with 6.5rc1.  I have a Bug# 3166 open and working with them on this.

[william_syd]

I see "Megaraid" in your bug report. Not good. Check the Centos 4 release notes for Megaraid.

Ensure you install on a drive bigger than 4GB.

[JohnG]

I don't know if this applies but I have a Dell SCSI card that needed to be set from "I2O" mode to "MASS STORAGE" mode within the driver firmware. Also make sure it's the latest firmware.

[CharlieBrady]

I see "Megaraid" in your bug report. Not good. Check the Centos 4 release notes for Megaraid.

From the RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 1 release notes:

    *

      The kernel shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 1 includes the new megaraid_mbox driver from LSI Logic, which replaces the megaraid driver. The megaraid_mbox driver has an improved design, is compatible with the 2.6 kernel, and includes support for the latest hardware. However, megaraid_mbox does not support some of the older hardware that was supported by the megaraid driver.

      Adapters with the following PCI vendor ID and device ID pairs are not supported by the megaraid_mbox driver:


      vendor, device

      0x101E, 0x9010
      0x101E, 0x9060
      0x8086, 0x1960

      The lspci -n command can be used to display the IDs for adapters installed in a particular machine. Products with these IDs are known by (but not limited to) the following model names:

    *

      Broadcom 5820
    *

      Dell PERC (dual-channel fast/wide SCSI) RAID controller
    *

      Dell PERC2/SC (single-channel Ultra SCSI) RAID controller
    *

      Dell PERC2/DC (dual-channel Ultra SCSI) RAID controller
    *

      Dell CERC (four-channel ATA/100) RAID controller
    *

      DRAC 1
    *

      MegaRAID 428
    *

      MegaRAID 466
    *

      MegaRAID Express 500
    *

      HP NetRAID 3Si and 1M

[JohnG]

Yup, I got the Dell PERC2/DC and am currently running Fedora 6 which I was told would never work. Setting it to MASS STORAGE worked in my case.

[william_syd]

http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index.php?url=archives/4-Installing-RHEL4-on-Systems-with-Legacy-Megaraid-Drivers.html

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=620656&r=9655011#r9655011