RE: fyi megaraid problems
Title: RE: fyi megaraid problems I've compiled the 2.2.18 and 2.4.0 kernels with the latest megaraid driver (1.14b) and they work well. You should also upgrade your firmware to L148 (bios 3.11). I think the firmware revision depends on which model card you have, I have the 1600 Elite. This is on a Penguin Relion 120, 2 CPUs, PIII, 1G RAM. Two 35G drives configured as one logical drive. I will say that I did float around for a while and found quite a few different versions of the driver (1.07b,1.13s,1b08b,1.13s0,1.14b, I have them all!) before Venkatesh Ramamurthy at AMI helped me figure this all out. (thanks Venkatesh!) Venkatesh posted the 1.14b driver to this list a week or two ago, and you can get the firmware upgrade from ami.com. -Original Message- From: Heitzso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 11:51 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: fyi megaraid problems don't know if this has been covered/studied datapoints I've run across re the megaraid (scsi raid driver, american megatrends) box: Dell PowerEdge 2300, 2 cpus, 1G RAM hard drive setup as single drive via raid controller RH6.1, compiled 2.2.13, megaraid works! RH7.0 install/upgrade breaks on megaraid then, after forcing RH7.0 upgrade by hand (completely snuffed up with all updates as of jan 23 am ...) RH7.0 kernel (out of the rpm box 686 smp) breaks on megaraid RH7.0 2.2.16 kernel source from rpm compiled using 2.2.13 .config file and make oldconfig generates kernel that breaks on megaraid (used RH provided scripts to compile with kgcc) 2.2.18 kernel (kernel.org) compiled with gcc on RH7.0 breaks on megaraid during boot BUT! 2.4.1pre10 (kernel.org), compiled with gcc on RH7.0 the megaraid driver works again! I was surprised that even 2.2.18 breaks then 2.4.1pre10 works, given RH's alliance with Dell. I compiled a 2.4.0 and set it up in lilo.conf but haven't tried booting to it. If it's useful to anyone, now that I have a good booting kernel I could recompile the old 2.2.13 setup and see whether the problem is due to a bad compiler env in RH7.0 or due to a bad megaraid module (i.e. if kernel that works fine now compiled under 6.1 breaks when recompiled under 7.0 then bug is in the RH7.0 compiler env; else bug is in megaraid shipped with 2.2.16, 2.2.18) Let me know if someone needs a datapoint. Heitzso [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
RE: fyi megaraid problems
Title: RE: fyi megaraid problems I've compiled the 2.2.18 and 2.4.0 kernels with the latest megaraid driver (1.14b) and they work well. You should also upgrade your firmware to L148 (bios 3.11). I think the firmware revision depends on which model card you have, I have the 1600 Elite. This is on a Penguin Relion 120, 2 CPUs, PIII, 1G RAM. Two 35G drives configured as one logical drive. I will say that I did float around for a while and found quite a few different versions of the driver (1.07b,1.13s,1b08b,1.13s0,1.14b, I have them all!) before Venkatesh Ramamurthy at AMI helped me figure this all out. (thanks Venkatesh!) Venkatesh posted the 1.14b driver to this list a week or two ago, and you can get the firmware upgrade from ami.com. -Original Message- From: Heitzso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 11:51 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: fyi megaraid problems don't know if this has been covered/studied datapoints I've run across re the megaraid (scsi raid driver, american megatrends) box: Dell PowerEdge 2300, 2 cpus, 1G RAM hard drive setup as single drive via raid controller RH6.1, compiled 2.2.13, megaraid works! RH7.0 install/upgrade breaks on megaraid then, after forcing RH7.0 upgrade by hand (completely snuffed up with all updates as of jan 23 am ...) RH7.0 kernel (out of the rpm box 686 smp) breaks on megaraid RH7.0 2.2.16 kernel source from rpm compiled using 2.2.13 .config file and make oldconfig generates kernel that breaks on megaraid (used RH provided scripts to compile with kgcc) 2.2.18 kernel (kernel.org) compiled with gcc on RH7.0 breaks on megaraid during boot BUT! 2.4.1pre10 (kernel.org), compiled with gcc on RH7.0 the megaraid driver works again! I was surprised that even 2.2.18 breaks then 2.4.1pre10 works, given RH's alliance with Dell. I compiled a 2.4.0 and set it up in lilo.conf but haven't tried booting to it. If it's useful to anyone, now that I have a good booting kernel I could recompile the old 2.2.13 setup and see whether the problem is due to a bad compiler env in RH7.0 or due to a bad megaraid module (i.e. if kernel that works fine now compiled under 6.1 breaks when recompiled under 7.0 then bug is in the RH7.0 compiler env; else bug is in megaraid shipped with 2.2.16, 2.2.18) Let me know if someone needs a datapoint. Heitzso [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
