3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-04 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi Again, After finally getting Sarge installed on my SuperMicro X6DHT-G motherboard system, I am having a problem recognizing the 3ware 9550 SATA Raid Controller card. I have loaded the 3w-9xxx module but that is not getting me anywhere yet. This system boots from a separate SATA disk so the

Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-04 Thread Ozz
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 20:39:30 -0500, Stephen Woodbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After finally getting Sarge installed on my SuperMicro X6DHT-G > motherboard system, I am having a problem recognizing the 3ware 9550 > SATA Raid Controller card. I have loaded the 3w-9xxx module but that is

Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:39:30PM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > After finally getting Sarge installed on my SuperMicro X6DHT-G > motherboard system, I am having a problem recognizing the 3ware 9550 > SATA Raid Controller card. I have loaded the 3w-9xxx module but that is > not getting me a

Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-05 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 20:39 -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > Hi Again, > > After finally getting Sarge installed on my SuperMicro X6DHT-G > motherboard system, I am having a problem recognizing the 3ware 9550 > SATA Raid Controller card. I have loaded the 3w-9xxx module but that is > not gett

Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-05 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
OK following this thread and the good advice from the thread: Re: no updates to amd64 stable in last 3 weeks? I have to ask what is udev and what does it do for me? Where/how do I get 2.6.15 that I can build for sarge and can someone walk me (a noobie) through the steps of building and insta

Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-08 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
OK, things are very close to completely working. Running the sid linux-image-2.6.15-1-em64t-p4-smp Have the ATAPI CDROM working :) Recognizing the 3ware 9550 raid card. Have built an ext3 filesystem and it mounts and read writes seem to be fine. BUT there is a problem on reboot. The fsck check

Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-11 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, I have not been able to find anything useful on the problem described below. I could really use some ideas or suggestions. The one thing I have not tried is to build the driver based on the 3ware source, but I have not had much luck building a kernel that works :( I'm willing to try

Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-11 Thread Clive Menzies
Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Hi all, I have not been able to find anything useful on the problem described below. I could really use some ideas or suggestions. The one thing I have not tried is to build the driver based on the 3ware source, but I have not had much luck building a kernel that wo

Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-11 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi Clive, Thanks this sounds like it might do it. I tried it but no luck yet. I some more details below, maybe I missed an important module. I'm running a Sarge system with the sid kernel and backported yaird. /etc/modprobe.d/libata options libata atapi_enabled=1 /etc/mkinitrd/modules

Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/01/06 14:16), Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > Thanks this sounds like it might do it. I tried it but no luck yet. I > some more details below, maybe I missed an important module. > > I'm running a Sarge system with the sid kernel and backported yaird. > > /etc/modprobe.d/libata >options l

Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-11 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Clive, Thanks for the suggestions, I really appreciate it. The 3ware is a pretty mature HW raid card, I would not try this with a Promise. I have an earlier PATA 3ware card in an older server with no problems and the card is working great except this reboot problem. -Steve Clive Menzies wro

Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-11 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Could be caused by having udev installed? Could it be interfering with the creation of /dev devices in some way? I'm reaching for straws here. -Steve Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Hi Clive, Thanks this sounds like it might do it. I tried it but no luck yet. I some more details below, maybe I mis

Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-11 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Interesting, I have found another list thread in Germany with this same problem only I can't read much German. The two suggestions I was able to make out were: 1) try adding a sleep in the boot scripts to give the raid array more time to initialize at startup. 2) effectively the same, by set

RESOLVED: Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-02-04 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi all, I finally got around to figuring out a fix for this problem and wanted to post a follow up in case someone else has this problem. The fix is to add the disk device driver modules to the yaird config file. In my case I added to /etc/yaird/Default.cfg MODULE ata_piix MODULE 3w_9xxx

First Kernel Build Attempt Failed was: Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-05 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Tried to build my first kernel, but no joy. This is what I did ... cd /usr/src wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2 tar xjf linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2 ln -s linux-2.6.15 linux cd linux cp /boot/config-2.6.8-11-em64t-p4-smp .config make oldconfig # answer 20,000 question

Re: First Kernel Build Attempt Failed was: Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 01:11:04AM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > Tried to build my first kernel, but no joy. This is what I did ... > > cd /usr/src > wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2 Try getting the linux-source package from unstable instead. It has debi

Re: First Kernel Build Attempt Failed was: Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-06 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 01:11:04AM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Tried to build my first kernel, but no joy. This is what I did ... cd /usr/src wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2 Try getting the linux-source package from unstable

Re: First Kernel Build Attempt Failed was: Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 06:37:43PM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 01:11:04AM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > > > >>Tried to build my first kernel, but no joy. This is what I did ... > >> > >>cd /usr/src > >>wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/lin

Re: First Kernel Build Attempt Failed was: Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-07 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
OK, I am making some progress ... I found this link and it seems pretty clean and straight forward. http://www.dominik-epple.de/Sarge-Linux_2.6.14-yaird/ and I have followed these steps except I'm using 2.6.15, ie: Backporting yaird, texi2html, make, kernel-package I spent all day going throu

Re: First Kernel Build Attempt Failed was: Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-07 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Fixed the cross-compile problem by adding --arch=amd64 to the make-kpkg command and the kernel compiles but of the package is strange and it will not install. fakeroot make-kpkg --arch=amd64 --initrd --append-to-version=.20060107 kernel-image The package name is: linux-image-2.6.15.20060107

Re: First Kernel Build Attempt Failed was: Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 05:07:10PM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > OK, I am making some progress ... I found this link and it seems pretty > clean and straight forward. > > http://www.dominik-epple.de/Sarge-Linux_2.6.14-yaird/ > > and I have followed these steps except I'm using 2.6.15, ie: >

Re: First Kernel Build Attempt Failed was: Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:26:21PM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > Fixed the cross-compile problem by adding --arch=amd64 to the make-kpkg > command and the kernel compiles but of the package is strange and it > will not install. > > fakeroot make-kpkg --arch=amd64 --initrd --append-to-versio

SUCCESS: Re: First Kernel Build Attempt Failed was: Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-08 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hi Len, Thank You! Thank you! Thank you! Using the kernel from sid did the trick! I guess I was too focused on having to build a kernel to step back from the problem and see that. Also the kernel-image to linux-image tripped me up so I didn't see them in apt-cache search. I now can see the 3

Re: SUCCESS: Re: First Kernel Build Attempt Failed was: Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:42:20AM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > Hi Len, > > Thank You! Thank you! Thank you! Using the kernel from sid did the > trick! I guess I was too focused on having to build a kernel to step > back from the problem and see that. Also the kernel-image to linux-image

CDROM Resolved. Re: SUCCESS: Re: First Kernel Build Attempt Failed was: Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-08 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Resolved the CDROM recognition problem. create a file named libata into /etc/modprobe.d/ with the content: options libata atapi_enabled=1 Then: # dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r` This regenerate the initrd image with the special parameter. It tried to pass libata.atapi_enabled=1 at boo