I am not sure if this helps you, but I thought I add my experience. I have recently installed 3x DL380G4s all with the Smartarray 6i controllers and RHEL 3 Update 3.
I did upgrade to the ProLiant Support Pack for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Version 7.30 (including the Smart array driver version 2.36). http://www1.jpn.hp.com/products/software/oe/linux/mainstream/support/doc/option/array.html I had to start the installation with the option *Linux dd* and insert the cd containing the scsi driver. If I remember correctly, than the scsi driver was included in the Support Pack CD and we had to extract a file - module to the cd with the dd command f.e. *dd if=/mnt/cdrom/module.img of=/mnt/cdrecorder* http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/family/model/5561.html?submit.y=0&submit.x=5&lang=en&cc=us http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/locate/101_5561.html#27 We did not install Debian Linux, but it seemed like the procedure would also work for Debian. If you can install Debian, but you cant access the scsi discs (probably raid) afterwards it means you have to patch the kernel. There was a document available actually describing this pretty good, also we finally didnt need it. http://www1.jpn.hp.com/products/software/oe/linux/mainstream/bin/support/doc/option/array/cpq_cciss-2.4.50-30.rhel3.i386.dd.gz.txt http://www1.jpn.hp.com/products/software/oe/linux/mainstream/support/doc/option/array.html We had to add additional procedures for the internal Tape drive xx7438c. On the homepage it explains how to setup a enable-scsi script which would allow to see and access the tape drive. Also the tape must first be formatted in the obsr ?? format (or what it was called see front of tape drive for the label) - you do this in the smartarray setup. SmartArray/cciss / TAPE Support: http://www1.jpn.hp.com/products/software/oe/linux/mainstream/support/doc/option/array/tape_cciss.html # cat /etc/rc.d/init.d/cciss-engage for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]* do echo "engage scsi" > $x done # chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/cciss-engage # ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/cciss-engage /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/S99cciss-engage # ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/cciss-engage /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99cciss-engage # ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/cciss-engage /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S99cciss-engage # # ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S99cciss-engage lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 7月 22 13:15 /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S9 9cciss-engage -> /etc/rc.d/init.d/cciss-engage # ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99cciss-engage lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 7月 22 13:15 /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S9 9cciss-engage -> /etc/rc.d/init.d/cciss-engage # ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/S99cciss-engage lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 7月 22 13:15 /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/S9 9cciss-engage -> /etc/rc.d/init.d/cciss-engage # cd /etc/rc.d/rc1.d # ls -l S99cciss-engage lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 7月 22 13:15 S99cciss-engage -> /etc/rc.d/init.d/cciss-engage Make sure only one entry in /etc/modules.conf is for the *alias scsi_hostadapter1 cciss*. Finally restart the machine and see if the TAPE drive is seen. Confirm with *cat /proc/scci/scsi* If you use HPs UPS f.e the X3000R and you may want to use the SMTP option then you will need Power Manager version 4.x (not 3.x) PM4.0 http://www1.jpn.hp.com/products/software/oe/linux/mainstream/support/doc/general/mgmt/ups/pm/v40/index.html PM4.0Manual(PDF) ftp://ftp.jpn.hp.com/products/servers/proliant/manuals/333101-194-j.pdf Download http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/power-protection/software/power-manager/index.html I wrote this now mostly out of my head, as you can see its pretty messed up and I might have missed something. Just keep asking and I will try to remember how exactly we did it.. Note that some of the links I provide are from the Japanese homepage (I am based in Tokyo ), but you may find the same info on the English homepage, also HPs homepage is not necessarily intuitive ;-). The whole setup should ideally take 2-4 hours if you concentrate on the points mentioned above, otherwise it might easily take 3-5 days. Good luck, keep asking when you get stuck (or better before ;-) You can also see some of my installation notes at my homepage below. Best regards Nils Valentin Tokyo / Japan http://www.be-known-online.com > Eric Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> Have anyone successfully installed debian on a hp dl360 with the smart >> array 6i controller. It seems like the smart array 5 is supported but >> not the 6 and I havent found any success stories either. > > At work we have a single DL360G4 and a bunch of DL380G4's with the 6i > controller (and a lot of DL360G3's and DL380G3's with the 5i) , all run > Debian without any problems. > >> Can anyone give me any hints on installing debian on this one? > > I haven't installed any of them myself, but as far as I've understood > our PXE+TFTP+NFS-boot system which was setup for the G3's just worked > for the G4's. > > .Henrik > > -- > Henrik Christian Grove > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]