Re: Compaq Smart2 Array
Hi! I'm having the same problem. Configuring the Array with the Compaq Smart Array Disk is pretty easy. Booting with Debian Compact Kernel is easy too. The Kernel includes the Smart Array Driver and is detecting both controller and array (at least in my case). My problem is how do I tell the Debian installer that /dev/ida/c0d0 is a valid hard disk? I'm only getting the message 'No hard disk found'. After installing Debian onto a local Scsi disk I don't have any problems to access the array. cu andreas --- If you wrap the Internet around every person on the planet and spin the planet, software flows in the network. - Eben Moglen's Metaphorical Corollary to Faraday's Law Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED]An: Nathan Ollerenshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org rve.co.uk debian-user@lists.debian.org Gesendet von: leee Kopie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thema: Re: Compaq Smart2 Array 04.04.01 00:19 Nathan Ollerenshaw wrote: Ok, the driver definately on there and the smart2 array controller is detected, but the debian installer doesn't find it after the keyboard configuration. It should be /dev/ida/c0d0 but opening an interactive shell and trying to find it, it's not there. Does anyone here have any experience with this? Nathan. (happily talking to himself ;) --- There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa Have you already configured the array? I've only had to install NT on Compaqs but before I even start installing the OS I have to configure the array controller i.e. tell it which spindles should be used for each of the logical drives, and what raid mode to use for each logical drive. The Smart Array configuration utility is on the Compaq SmartStart CD - it's bootable. HTH LeeE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Compaq Smart2 Array
Yup, The array was configured and in fact I had sucessfully installed redhat 7 and 6.2 on the machine. They recognised the compaq utils partition and avoided it appropriately. I think the problem is that the debian root disk doesn't have entries in /dev for the /dev/ida devices, and can't detect them. The compact kernel while booting saw the device, and listed all the /dev/ida/c0d0p[1-7] partitions correctly, so the actual configuration of the array was fine. Nathan. --- There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lee Elliott Sent: 03 April 2001 23:20 To: Nathan Ollerenshaw; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Compaq Smart2 Array Nathan Ollerenshaw wrote: Ok, the driver definately on there and the smart2 array controller is detected, but the debian installer doesn't find it after the keyboard configuration. It should be /dev/ida/c0d0 but opening an interactive shell and trying to find it, it's not there. Does anyone here have any experience with this? Nathan. (happily talking to himself ;) --- There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa Have you already configured the array? I've only had to install NT on Compaqs but before I even start installing the OS I have to configure the array controller i.e. tell it which spindles should be used for each of the logical drives, and what raid mode to use for each logical drive. The Smart Array configuration utility is on the Compaq SmartStart CD - it's bootable. HTH LeeE
RE: Compaq Smart2 Array
Bah, answered my own question. Its on the 'compact' boot disks. Sorry for wasting your bandwidth :P --- There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa -Original Message- From: Nathan Ollerenshaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 April 2001 10:26 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Compaq Smart2 Array Hi, Was wondering if there is a debian boot floppy with the compaq smart2 controller driver on it? I have a DL380 here that I would prefer debian was on, but unfortunately the standard boot floppies doesn't have it. Alternatively, if its as simple as just makeing a boot floppy on another linux box with a particular setup, the pointers on how to do that would be equally as good. Cheers, Nathan. --- There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Compaq Smart2 Array
Ok, the driver definately on there and the smart2 array controller is detected, but the debian installer doesn't find it after the keyboard configuration. It should be /dev/ida/c0d0 but opening an interactive shell and trying to find it, it's not there. Does anyone here have any experience with this? Nathan. (happily talking to himself ;) --- There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa -Original Message- From: Nathan Ollerenshaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 April 2001 10:53 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Compaq Smart2 Array Bah, answered my own question. Its on the 'compact' boot disks. Sorry for wasting your bandwidth :P --- There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa -Original Message- From: Nathan Ollerenshaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 April 2001 10:26 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Compaq Smart2 Array Hi, Was wondering if there is a debian boot floppy with the compaq smart2 controller driver on it? I have a DL380 here that I would prefer debian was on, but unfortunately the standard boot floppies doesn't have it. Alternatively, if its as simple as just makeing a boot floppy on another linux box with a particular setup, the pointers on how to do that would be equally as good. Cheers, Nathan. --- There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa -- 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]
Re: Compaq Smart2 Array
Nathan Ollerenshaw wrote: Ok, the driver definately on there and the smart2 array controller is detected, but the debian installer doesn't find it after the keyboard configuration. It should be /dev/ida/c0d0 but opening an interactive shell and trying to find it, it's not there. Does anyone here have any experience with this? Nathan. (happily talking to himself ;) --- There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa Have you already configured the array? I've only had to install NT on Compaqs but before I even start installing the OS I have to configure the array controller i.e. tell it which spindles should be used for each of the logical drives, and what raid mode to use for each logical drive. The Smart Array configuration utility is on the Compaq SmartStart CD - it's bootable. HTH LeeE
Re: Compaq Smart2 Array
I use Compaq Proliants for my servers and have had to manually make the necessary devices as SOP on fresh installations. Configuring the array does nothing to solve this issue - the device files just aren't in the boot image (/dev/ida/c0d*). After booting from the CD I Ctrl-Alt-F2 and get into the shell provided (thank goodness for this or we'd be hosed). I then mkdir /dev/ida, cd into it, and mknod b 72 0 c0d0, and mknod b 72 X c0d0pX (where X=[1-15]). After that, I take a pre-compiled cpqarray.o module on a floppy, cp it to /lib/modules/misc, do a depmod -a, modprobe, and lsmod (just to make sure). After that you should be good to go for installation. Afterward you'll need to have an kernel with the cpqarray module already statically compiled in, copy that from floppy into /target/boot, ln -s /target/boot /boot, ln -s /target/boot/bzImage /vmlinuz, /target/sbin/lilo -C /target/etc/lilo.conf, and then reboot. Let the install process finish up normally after reboot and then rebuild yourself a new kernel with whatever other little gizmos you want to add in (making SURE that the Compaq SmartArray module is statically compiled!). Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 23:19:33 +0100 From: Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nathan Ollerenshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Compaq Smart2 Array Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nathan Ollerenshaw wrote: Ok, the driver definately on there and the smart2 array controller is detected, but the debian installer doesn't find it after the keyboard configuration. It should be /dev/ida/c0d0 but opening an interactive shell and trying to find it, it's not there. Does anyone here have any experience with this? Nathan. (happily talking to himself ;) --- There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa Have you already configured the array? I've only had to install NT on Compaqs but before I even start installing the OS I have to configure the array controller i.e. tell it which spindles should be used for each of the logical drives, and what raid mode to use for each logical drive. The Smart Array configuration utility is on the Compaq SmartStart CD - it's bootable. HTH LeeE -- Eric N. Valor Webmeister/Inetservices Lutris Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This Space Intentionally Left Blank -
