Re: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller
Only controllers have IO ports and IRQs - not the devices attached to them - whether it is for SCSI or IDE. This is how you would do it under Red Hat - I work with Red Hat systems every day but my desktop is Mandrake so I've installed Red Hat systems many more times than Mandrake: Pick expert mode install and when you are specifying the CDROM, pick out the eata driver and check the "specific module arguments". The arguments will look like: eata=0x7410 this tells the driver to look for the controller at IO port 0x7410. Reading over the information in /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/eata.c, it looks like the driver automatically probes for DPT EISA controllers in the range of 0x1C88 to 0xFC88 but if the IO port of your controller is different you will have to specify it. - Original Message - From: "Ira M. Bargon III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:58 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller When you said that i need to pass the io port or the irq to the driver, did you mean the io port or irq for the scsi controller or the cd-rom. Also what would be the syntax for that. For instance what would i need to state in order to give the io port of the device. Thanks. Ira -Original Message- From:Lars Nordin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:01:19 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller It sounds like you have a EISA DPT card -> www.dpt.com may not exist anymore since adaptec bought them up (so you may have to go to www.adaptec.com). I've used DPT SCSI controllers in the past and they worked fine (this was on Unixware). It sounds like you have the correct driver EATA but you may have to pass the IO port or IRQ to the driver. You should be able to hit some hotkey at startup and get at the SCSI controller BIOS or download the DPT configuration sw, either will show you how the card is configured. One last thing, on hardware RAID controllers like this one, configuring it usually simple (you might want to download the manuals for the controller you have); the controller hides the fact that it is a RAID and hence all operating systems see the RAID as a single disk (albeit a very large one). - Original Message - From: "Ira M. Bargon III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 10:14 PM Subject: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller [snip] Well I went with a Mandrake 7.2 install and couldnt get past step one. I dont know what scsi driver to use, i tried them all and none of them worked. Every drive on this server is scsi. The logo on the controller says DPT CM400. On bootup it lists as a pm2122a/9x. I am taking the asummption that the two hardrives are some type of raid array. I have never done an linux install on scsi so i am definately lost. Is anyone familiar with the hardware i listed above. Do you know what drivers i need to use to do the install. I was under the impression that i need to use one of the EATA drivers. None of these work. If having the raid configuration is going to be a pain, i will forget about it. Becasue i dont really see my self doing any hard drive intensive work. This server would just be for file storage, internet sharing, squid and samba. If anyone has any information for where i could even start that would be great. Thanks again. Ira ___ Visit http://www.visto.com/info, your free web-based communications center. Visto.com. Life on the Dot.
RE: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller
American Megatrends Express 200(466) single channel raid works fine. But since you can get some fairly huge scsi drives nowadays, why bother with raid at all? I have a few 73.4gb drives running on one adaptec 2940, and have had no problems whatsoever. I agree with John Lemay...throw the raid card out! btw, luv the grue tagwas that Zork (showing my age)? John Hart Network Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 843.529.0678 x417 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John J. LeMay Jr. Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 11:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller ** Reply to message from "Ira M. Bargon III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:14:25 -0800 > The logo on the controller says DPT CM400 Sounds like an Adaptec RAID controller. From what I've seen, there are no Linux drivers for it. Rip it out, replace it with a 2940 or some other non-raid SCSI controller. If you want raid, take a look at the Mylex adapters. Make sure you know what SCSI you are running. By the description of the box, I'd say Wide SCSI or something from that "generation". Pull the model numbers from the drives and dounble check the vendor's site (unless they happen to be Micropolis or another long-gone SCSI vendor from the mid-90's heyday of SCSI). John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC. [tag] It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Re: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller
When you said that i need to pass the io port or the irq to the driver, did you mean the io port or irq for the scsi controller or the cd-rom. Also what would be the syntax for that. For instance what would i need to state in order to give the io port of the device. Thanks. Ira -Original Message- From:Lars Nordin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:01:19 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller It sounds like you have a EISA DPT card -> www.dpt.com may not exist anymore since adaptec bought them up (so you may have to go to www.adaptec.com). I've used DPT SCSI controllers in the past and they worked fine (this was on Unixware). It sounds like you have the correct driver EATA but you may have to pass the IO port or IRQ to the driver. You should be able to hit some hotkey at startup and get at the SCSI controller BIOS or download the DPT configuration sw, either will show you how the card is configured. One last thing, on hardware RAID controllers like this one, configuring it usually simple (you might want to download the manuals for the controller you have); the controller hides the fact that it is a RAID and hence all operating systems see the RAID as a single disk (albeit a very large one). - Original Message - From: "Ira M. Bargon III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 10:14 PM Subject: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller [snip] Well I went with a Mandrake 7.2 install and couldnt get past step one. I dont know what scsi driver to use, i tried them all and none of them worked. Every drive on this server is scsi. The logo on the controller says DPT CM400. On bootup it lists as a pm2122a/9x. I am taking the asummption that the two hardrives are some type of raid array. I have never done an linux install on scsi so i am definately lost. Is anyone familiar with the hardware i listed above. Do you know what drivers i need to use to do the install. I was under the impression that i need to use one of the EATA drivers. None of these work. If having the raid configuration is going to be a pain, i will forget about it. Becasue i dont really see my self doing any hard drive intensive work. This server would just be for file storage, internet sharing, squid and samba. If anyone has any information for where i could even start that would be great. Thanks again. Ira ___ Visit http://www.visto.com/info, your free web-based communications center. Visto.com. Life on the Dot.
Re: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller
It sounds like you have a EISA DPT card -> www.dpt.com may not exist anymore since adaptec bought them up (so you may have to go to www.adaptec.com). I've used DPT SCSI controllers in the past and they worked fine (this was on Unixware). It sounds like you have the correct driver EATA but you may have to pass the IO port or IRQ to the driver. You should be able to hit some hotkey at startup and get at the SCSI controller BIOS or download the DPT configuration sw, either will show you how the card is configured. One last thing, on hardware RAID controllers like this one, configuring it usually simple (you might want to download the manuals for the controller you have); the controller hides the fact that it is a RAID and hence all operating systems see the RAID as a single disk (albeit a very large one). - Original Message - From: "Ira M. Bargon III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 10:14 PM Subject: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller [snip] Well I went with a Mandrake 7.2 install and couldnt get past step one. I dont know what scsi driver to use, i tried them all and none of them worked. Every drive on this server is scsi. The logo on the controller says DPT CM400. On bootup it lists as a pm2122a/9x. I am taking the asummption that the two hardrives are some type of raid array. I have never done an linux install on scsi so i am definately lost. Is anyone familiar with the hardware i listed above. Do you know what drivers i need to use to do the install. I was under the impression that i need to use one of the EATA drivers. None of these work. If having the raid configuration is going to be a pain, i will forget about it. Becasue i dont really see my self doing any hard drive intensive work. This server would just be for file storage, internet sharing, squid and samba. If anyone has any information for where i could even start that would be great. Thanks again. Ira
Re: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller
** Reply to message from "Ira M. Bargon III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:14:25 -0800 > The logo on the controller says DPT CM400 Sounds like an Adaptec RAID controller. From what I've seen, there are no Linux drivers for it. Rip it out, replace it with a 2940 or some other non-raid SCSI controller. If you want raid, take a look at the Mylex adapters. Make sure you know what SCSI you are running. By the description of the box, I'd say Wide SCSI or something from that "generation". Pull the model numbers from the drives and dounble check the vendor's site (unless they happen to be Micropolis or another long-gone SCSI vendor from the mid-90's heyday of SCSI). John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC. [tag] It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
[expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller
Hello, One of our alumni dropped of a server that his company wasnt using anymore. It's a Hp Netserver 4d/66 lm. As far as i could find out it has a pentium 90 with 162mb RAM. Which i see is better than what im using now for the server which is a pentium 90 with 32mb ram. Well the os this thing is running is dos i think. I also see it running some novel netware. I want to install linux on this server. Becasue i dont know jack about netware and i have some knowledge of linux. Well I went with a Mandrake 7.2 install and couldnt get past step one. I dont know what scsi driver to use, i tried them all and none of them worked. Every drive on this server is scsi. The logo on the controller says DPT CM400. On bootup it lists as a pm2122a/9x. I am taking the asummption that the two hardrives are some type of raid array. I have never done an linux install on scsi so i am definately lost. Is anyone familiar with the hardware i listed above. Do you know what drivers i need to use to do the install. I was under the impression that i need to use one of the EATA drivers. None of these work. If having the raid configuration is going to be a pain, i will forget about it. Becasue i dont really see my self doing any hard drive intensive work. This server would just be for file storage, internet sharing, squid and samba. If anyone has any information for where i could even start that would be great. Thanks again. Ira ___ Visit http://www.visto.com/info, your free web-based communications center. Visto.com. Life on the Dot.
[expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller
Hello, One of our alumni dropped of a server that his company wasnt using anymore. It's a Hp Netserver 4d/66 lm. As far as i could find out it has a pentium 90 with 162mb RAM. Which i see is better than what im using now for the server which is a pentium 90 with 32mb ram. Well the os this thing is running is dos i think. I also see it running some novel netware. I want to install linux on this server. Becasue i dont know jack about netware and i have some knowledge of linux. Well I went with a Mandrake 7.2 install and couldnt get past step one. I dont know what scsi driver to use, i tried them all and none of them worked. Every drive on this server is scsi. The logo on the controller says DPT CM400. On bootup it lists as a pm2122a/9x. I am taking the asummption that the two hardrives are some type of raid array. I have never done an linux install on scsi so i am definately lost. Is anyone familiar with the hardware i listed above. Do you know what drivers i need to use to do the install. I was under the impression that i need to use one of the EATA drivers. None of these work. If having the raid configuration is going to be a pain, i will forget about it. Becasue i dont really see my self doing any hard drive intensive work. This server would just be for file storage, internet sharing, squid and samba. If anyone has any information for where i could even start that would be great. Thanks again. Ira ___ Visit http://www.visto.com/info, your free web-based communications center. Visto.com. Life on the Dot.
