>Hardware RAID help, please. Thanks.
>
>I have a Compaq ProLiant 2500 Server using 2x PPro200mhz, 128MB RAM,
>Compaq SmartArray 2/E EISA Card with 2x 4.3G and 1x 2.0G HotSwappable HD.
>but I cannot install RedHat 6.1 or SuSE 6.2, they both cannot see my Smart
2/E.
>Under RedHat 6.1, I tried to use "Expert" installation mode, and select
SCSI,
>then select "Compaq Array", give it parameter 0xC8000, machine just stay
there...
>same under SuSE 6.2, choose Kernel Driver, and load Compaq Array, giving
0xC8000,
>just stay there... or else, if I don't mention "Compaq Array", they both
cannot
>see any of my HD.
I have been experiencing similar problems. I tried using the kernel &
initrd.img I am
using to boot the machine (kernel 2.2.12 with latest raid patches) but the
boot fails
with a kernel panic when I superimpose these on the RedHat 6.1 bootnet
image.
>Anyone experience with this Compaq SmartArray?
>
>I read the 2.2.12 kernel source document, it said I need to recompile the
kernel
>with "patch"?! does anyone know do I need that patch? but how can I patch
it if
>I cannot install it?
>
To get 6.0 going, which was supposed to support the Smart2, I had to compile
a
custom kernel with the compaq patches (smart2-1.0.5.patch &
sim710-990829_diff)
applied.
I would try the 2.2.12 kernel with the latest those paches and the raid
patches applied.
Get it to boot the image on a floppy, transfer that kernel & initrd to a
copy of the RedHat
floppy and it should work.
I have to get other machines in production for Y2K relief (retiring novel &
going to linux / NT)
this weekend, so I will not get to try it this week. If you have success
let me (and the list)
know what you did.
>I had good experience with Software-RAID on both different machine.
>this is the first machine that I had a hardware-RAID controller.
Compaq is difinetely different and NOT fun :-(
>
Bob
