Re: [SLE] Suse 9.1 installation on Adaptec Raid with dtp_i20 driver

From: W.D.McKinney (deem_at_wdm.com)
Date: 05/13/04

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Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 17:51:30 -0800

    On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 17:53, Joseph Brockert wrote:
    > Mark,
    > I should have been more clear. SuSE 9.0 with the adaptec card installed
    > to any drive configuration(raid or no raid) by loading the dtp_i2o
    > driver at install time. And just like you it had "double vision" and
    > when the raid setup
    > fail I could not recover it. I then set it up without raid and it
    > worked but still had "double vision". I ran with it like that for
    > months, and like you I was unable to convince SuSE that they had a
    > problem. My hope was that it would be fixed in 9.1. But as I see the
    > problem is worse. 9.1 can't even find any drive configuration. Did I
    > answer your question?....joe
    >
    >

    I have 9.0 installed on raid box also.

     # lspci
    00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P]
    System Controller (rev 11)
    00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P]
    AGP Bridge
    00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-766 [ViperPlus] ISA
    (rev 02)
    00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-766 [ViperPlus]
    IDE (rev 01)
    00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-766 [ViperPlus] ACPI
    (rev 01)
    00:07.4 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-766 [ViperPlus]
    USB (rev 07)
    00:08.0 PCI bridge: Distributed Processing Technology PCI Bridge (rev
    02)
    00:08.1 I2O: Distributed Processing Technology SmartRAID V Controller
    (rev 02)
    00:0d.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7899P U160/m (rev 01)
    00:0d.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7899P U160/m (rev 01)
    00:0e.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
    00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c980-TX 10/100baseTX NIC
    [Python-T] (rev 78)
    00:10.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c980-TX 10/100baseTX NIC
    [Python-T] (rev 78)

    The dpt_i2o found the HD's just fine on the install. Are saying that it
    doesn't work ?

    Dee

    > On Wednesday 12 May 2004 04:40 pm, Joseph Brockert wrote:
    > | Are you suggesting that when the yast probe finds the the raid card
    > | and and recommends loading the dpt_i2o driver that I say no and
    > | continue on?, or is their a setting on the card itself that I need to
    > | disable?....thanks joe
    > |
    > | On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 14:55, g.lams@itcilo.org wrote:
    > | > I had the same kind of problem on an "old" integrated and I had to
    > | > disable i2o on the raid adapter. I also had to pass 2 parameters at
    > | > boot time but disabling i2o could be enough
    > | >
    > | > gael
    > | >
    > | > --Joseph Brockert <joe@brockert.com> wrote: --
    > | >
    > | > >To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
    > | > >From: Joseph Brockert
    > | > >Date: 12/05/2004 09:06PM
    > | > >Subject: [SLE] SuSE 9.1 installation on Adaptec Raid with dtp_i2o
    > | > >driver
    > | > >
    > | > >I boot to SuSE install dvd and start a manual install. Yast finds
    > | > > my adaptec(dtp) 2000 raid card and ask to load the dpt_i20
    > | > > drivers, I say
    > | > >OK. Yast continues but says it can find any hard disks. I know
    > | > > hards are
    > | > >installed, because I have formated them up, install SuSE 9.0, then
    > | > >reformated. This same process works OK with SuSE 9.0 installation.
    > | > >I
    > | > >have tried just installing to a single disk, or a raid setup, but
    > | > >the
    > | > >intallation never finds any disks. Can anyone give me an idea
    > | > > where to
    > | > >look next?.....joe
    >
    >
    > Gael,
    >
    >
    > I have a DPT PM2865U3, which is pretty much an Adaptec 21xxS RAID
    > controller with an Adaptec-ified BIOS on one of my personal
    > workstations. I also put several of these cards in clients' servers.
    >
    >
    > The card works flawlessly on SuSE 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2. On 9.0, the driver
    > got "double vision" and saw at least one hard disk twice. Only way to
    > install 9.0 was to create a hardware RAID1 array (but when one of the
    > drives died, SuSE freaked, so now I'm back to 8.2).
    >
    >
    > I was unable to convince SuSE that they had a problem here.
    >
    >
    > What parms did you pass to the driver to get it to work properly in 9.0?
    >
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Mark
    >
    >
    > 

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