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

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To: Joseph Brockert <joe@brockert.com>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 22:36:49 -0400

Joe,

You have the *exact* same symptoms as I do.

How do we get SuSE to believe that they have a real show-stopping issue
here? I had several emails exchanged with Hartmut Meyer, but he
refused to consider this an issue with 9.0.

I put these cards into several clients' servers. They are effectively
frozen at 8.2. I was going to put one of these family of cards into a
server for a SLOX installation. But now I'll have to look at
eGroupWare or Kolab on some other distro. I can't tell a client to use
SuSE when top-quality hardware that is supported just fine by every
other Linux distro but isn't supported any longer in the latest
versions of SuSE.

Not a good situation... If anyone reading this has contacts at SuSE
they think may be helpful, please send me a private email.

Mark

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 09:53 pm, 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
|
| 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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