Linux-Hardware Digest #662, Volume #13 Mon, 2 Oct 00 22:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Lilo ("G. Donners")
Re: multiboot confusion (Rod Smith)
re: SYM53C1010 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Having trouble w\ Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet v2 and RH 7.0... ("Aaron
Goldman")
Which RAID patch for 2.2.16 kernel? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
D851EEA network adapter help, please. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
adding a scsi disk to an ide system (Alan Needleman)
Re: SCSI/CD-Writer problems (David_C)
Re: adding a scsi disk to an ide system (David_C)
Re: SYM53C1010 ("Heath Doane")
Re: adding a scsi disk to an ide system (Alan Needleman)
Re: Digital flat-panel LCD
Re: Using IDE CDROM and CDRW drives at the same time ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Issues with SCSI Tape Unit ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Raid Problems "mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
" in 2.2.14 kernel rh6.1 ("Haniel G. Mercedes")
Raid Problems "mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
" in 2.2.14 kernel rh6.1 ("Haniel G. Mercedes")
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From: "G. Donners" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 00:12:38 +0200
Take a look at www.xosl.org
Works great!!
Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
8r0dnr$1rfo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I have an Athalon Thunderbird 800mhz w/256meg of ram. Running Redhat 6.2,
> kernel 2.2.14. I have a Seagate 15 gig(hda) and a Maxtor 17 gig(hdb). I
> am using lilo 21.4.4-10. The Seagate requires the "linear" argument in
> lilo.conf, while the Maxtor needs lba32. This is not a problem unless I
> want to boot to my windows partition on my maxtor (hdb) drive. The Linear
> and Lba32 arguments are both global options. Is there a way to pass an
> argument to acomplish the same thing through the "per-image section? I
used to
> use loadin.exe, but would like to use lilo.
> Any ideas????
>
>
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: multiboot confusion
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 22:59:04 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Jones) writes:
> I need some advice on a multiboot system. I have an Abit PB6 system
> with dual Celeron CPUs, but I'm not using the HTP 366 controller yet.
> Initialy I set it up with an old 200M HD on ide 0, 500M on ide 1, IBM
> 13,5G on ide 2 and ide CDROM on ide3. I normaly booted and ran
> DOS/WIN3.1 from the 200M drive. The 500M drive is FAT 16 data. The
> IBM drive is partitioned 500M DOS/WIN3.1. 2G FAT32 (WIN98SE not yet
> installed)., 2.5G ext2- Mandrake 7.0, then an extended partition with
> a 128M logical Linux swap partition. I also have a 100M external SCSI
> Zip drive, but I don't have extra disks available for backup.
>
> I installed Mandrake 7.0 with LILO on the 200M drive. All my drives
> and partitions were recognized, and boot options were created, but
> only Linux, and DOS on the first disk would actualy boot from LILO.
You haven't described any other bootable partitions.
> Recently I swapped IDE cables to put the IBM drive on ide0 and I
> installed the full Partition Magic and Boot Magic (on tthe fist DOS
> partition of the IBM drive). I also created another 500M FAT 16
> logical data partition in the IBM extended partion. Boot Magic now
> boots everything that it should. However, booting DOS from the old
> 200M drive, only that and the Zip drive are acessable. Booting DOS on
> the IBM drive, only that and the Zip drive are accessable. I have
> not been able to get PM/BM to make the other FAT 16 partitions visible
> (as LILO did before).
I'm actually a bit surprised that DOS boots from the 200MB drive when
it's /dev/hdc, since DOS normally wants to boot from the first physical
disk. Presumably BootMagic is doing something to fake the BIOS out
regarding the drive assignments. My guess is that this is interfering
with drive assignments for other than the boot disk, hence losing the
other two disks.
> Should I try one of the other boot
> managers, and if so which one? The docs I have are confusing,
> contradictory, and possibly outdated. I want to install WIN89SE to
> the FAT32 patition. However, there are several warnings not to use
> FAT32 on a multiboot system. I have not read a complete explanation
> for this, and I know other people do it. Should I use FAT16 instead
> of FAT32?
Given the capacities of your drives, you may want to just plain ditch
the 200MB drive, and probably the 500MB drive, too; they're puny and
probably horribly slow compared to your 13.5GB drive. If I understand
correctly, you want to boot DOS, Win98, and Linux. That's easily done
with many boot loaders, including BootMagic and LILO. FAT-32 shouldn't
cause you any problems, except of course for the fact that plain DOS
can't read FAT-32. I'd put the DOS partition first, the Windows
partition(s) second, and the Linux partitions last (with a possible
exception of a small Linux /boot partition, to keep it under the
1024-cylinder limit, if that's an issue). If you want something fancier
than this (like multiple versions of DOS), you may want to look into
System Commander as a boot loader, since it can keep multiple versions
of DOS on one partition.
> I was planning on a full reinstall of Mandrake 7.0, this time putting
> LILO on the Linux partition, with Boot Magic (or possibly another boot
> manager) on the IBM MBR. Of course I should install WIN98 first.
> BTW, Linux is not currently bootable. I made a boot disk before I
> swaped IDE cables, but the boot diskette is not smart enough to search
> other drives for a Linux partition and boot it.
You can recover your current Linux system, but it may be a bit of a
nuisance. You'll need to boot using LOADLIN, telling it where your root
partition has got to. That'll fail, but let you into a disaster
recovery mode, in which you can edit /etc/fstab to reflect the new
locations of everything. (Alternatively, you can use Explore2FS or an
emergency Linux recovery floppy to edit /etc/fstab prior to booting
using LOADLIN.) Shut down and do it again. This time it should work,
but you'll need to edit /etc/lilo.conf and re-install LILO to boot more
directly.
FWIW, I cover a lot of these issues in my book, _The Multi-Boot
Configuration Handbook_ (http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/).
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: re: SYM53C1010
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 23:04:50 GMT
Does anybody knows where I can find support for SYM53C1010 symbios
ultra160 scsi controller.
Thanks.........
Dale Khehra
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From: "Aaron Goldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Having trouble w\ Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet v2 and RH 7.0...
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 23:23:30 GMT
Hey guys,
Well, I just upgrade to RedHat 7.0 since it seemed like a more improved OS
(Ha!) and have run into a wall. I recently used the driver modules from
http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html
in order to get my network card -
Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet (NC100 v2)
- working (w\ tulip module). Anyway, the source RPM and c source code
worked great under RH 6.2, but under RH 7.0 they won't compile correctly. I
get a ton of errors with missing links and basic compiling errors (not
exactly sure of what they are - typing this in win). If anyone has gotten
this card to work, Please Help! =) I am desperate..
Thanks a lot,
Aaron Goldman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Which RAID patch for 2.2.16 kernel?
Date: 02 Oct 2000 18:49:39 -0400
I've got a 2.2.16 kernel patched with Hedrick's IDE stuff.
(I applied the patch so I can use Promise Ultra66 controllers. UDMA works
great with this kernel+patch.)
I'd like to run RAID, but I get the error:
"read_ahead not set"
when I try to initialize the disk array.
Everyone says you need to patch the 2.0 and 2.2 series kernels, but I
can't find an appropriate patch. Does anyone know where to find it?
Thanks,
Richard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: D851EEA network adapter help, please.
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 23:31:44 GMT
Hello,
I have Intel D815EEA motherboard, which came with integrated video,
audio, and LAN.
I have RedHat Linux 7.0 installed.
I'm having trouble with the integrated network adapter.
I'm not a neophyte to Linux, but fairly new.
I was able to download the file e100-1.3.14.tar.gz and unzip it. By
the way, is that the correct file?
I did gunzip, which gave me the tar file. Then I extracted the tar
archive, which gave me a directory with many files in it, one of which
is "Makefile".
Here's a quote from the instructions.
"2) Run 'make' to build the driver as a loadable module."
What do they mean by that? Run what? Run 'make'? How do I
run 'make'? I tried typing "make" at the command prompt, and I got an
error.
Is there a binary file that I can simply download and install?
I need some detailed, step-by-step instructions on installing the
driver.
I have another computer that has a Netgear ethernet card, and RedHat
Linux recognized the NIC and installed the proper driver. On that
computer, I was able to hook up the DSL modem and access the internet.
So, once the driver is loaded/installed in the D815EEA computer, I'm
sure I'll be fine.
Thanks.
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From: Alan Needleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: adding a scsi disk to an ide system
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 23:43:27 GMT
Hi,
I took a working scsi disk/controller combination from one scsi-based
computer and added it to an ide-based system. The motherboards are
identical. The bios recognizes the scsi card (ncr53xx) and the disk (lun
0). The first time I booted kudzu (I'm running RH 6.x) recognized the
scsi card and added it to conf.modules. It is also listed in
/etc/sysconfig/hwconf. When I boot linux (2.16-3 kernel) from the ide
boot disk I get 0 hosts detected and linux doesn't recognize any of the
/dev/sdax devices as valid. However, if I set the bios to boot from the
scsi (it was the boot disk from the system that is being upgraded), the
disk is detected and I can boot that kernel (also 2.16-3) but of course
the configuration is all wrong and I get dumped into maintainence mode.
I have the feeling there is some software step to get linux to recognize
the scsi devices (rescan hardware somehow?) that I am missing and is
beyond what kudzu does. Any suggestions, much appreciated.
Thanks.
Alan
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From: David_C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI/CD-Writer problems
Date: 02 Oct 2000 20:30:43 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>
>> I tell people to manually set their card's termination, as
>> appropriate for where the card is attached to the SCSI bus. The
>> settings are simple to remember:
>
> I'll go one further. I don't know about prices in your part of the
> world, but here an active terminator is about 5% more expensive that a
> passive terminator. I would always use an active terminator on both
> ends of a SCSI chain.
Is there anybody (other than those who simply have no experience) who
doesn't recommend active termination?
It's required with FAST20 (Ultra SCSI), and a damn good idea with
eveyrthing else as well.
The termination built-in to most modern SCSI cards and drives these days
is active. You can usually tell by how you apply/remove it - active
termination is usually toggled by a jumper or a firmware setting.
Passive almost always involves adding or removing resistor packs.
-- David
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From: David_C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: adding a scsi disk to an ide system
Date: 02 Oct 2000 20:33:19 -0400
Alan Needleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I took a working scsi disk/controller combination from one scsi-based
> computer and added it to an ide-based system. The motherboards are
> identical. The bios recognizes the scsi card (ncr53xx) and the disk
> (lun 0). The first time I booted kudzu (I'm running RH 6.x) recognized
> the scsi card and added it to conf.modules. It is also listed in
> /etc/sysconfig/hwconf. When I boot linux (2.16-3 kernel) from the ide
> boot disk I get 0 hosts detected and linux doesn't recognize any of
> the /dev/sdax devices as valid. However, if I set the bios to boot
> from the scsi (it was the boot disk from the system that is being
> upgraded), the disk is detected and I can boot that kernel (also
> 2.16-3) but of course the configuration is all wrong and I get dumped
> into maintainence mode.
>
> I have the feeling there is some software step to get linux to
> recognize the scsi devices (rescan hardware somehow?) that I am
> missing and is beyond what kudzu does. Any suggestions, much
> appreciated.
Make sure /etc/conf.modules has an "alias scsi_hostadapter..." line
appropriate for your SCSI card.
Make an initial RAM disk (via mkinitrd), put this in /boot, and tell
LILO to use it (add an "initrd=" line in /etc/lilo.conf, then run lilo).
This should do it.
-- David
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From: "Heath Doane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SYM53C1010
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 00:44:13 GMT
If you goto www.symbios.com, and follow the re-direction; LSILogic actually
provides drivers for this controller. I don't have one myself, so I have no
idea how well they work, but they are there, under Support/Scsi/Linux
Happy Hunting!
Heath
And, as always, YMMV...
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8rb4af$g4d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does anybody knows where I can find support for SYM53C1010 symbios
> ultra160 scsi controller.
>
> Thanks.........
>
> Dale Khehra
>
>
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From: Alan Needleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: adding a scsi disk to an ide system
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 00:47:22 GMT
> I took a working scsi disk/controller combination from one scsi-based
> computer and added it to an ide-based system.
<snip>
> When I boot linux (2.16-3 kernel) from the ide
> boot disk I get 0 hosts detected and linux doesn't recognize any of the
> /dev/sdax devices as valid.
<snip>
> I have the feeling there is some software step to get linux to recognize
> the scsi devices (rescan hardware somehow?) that I am missing and is
> beyond what kudzu does.
Got it! I have to manually /sbin/insmod ncr53c8xx. Is there a way to get
the kernel to do this automatically?
Thanks.
Alan
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Digital flat-panel LCD
Date: 30 Sep 2000 08:32:22 +0000
dunno if this will help, but i'm using a dual head matrox millenium
400 with an eizo L350 lcd. works great. less filling too.
ciao,
--
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I put aside my copy of "BOWLING WORLD" and think about GUN CONTROL
legislation..
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Using IDE CDROM and CDRW drives at the same time
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 00:44:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post) wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 21:17:46 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >Can someone recommend the best way to use my two CD Drives at the
same
> >time under Linux withought getting constant error messages in dmesg.
> You never explained what these 'constant' error messages are...
I am posting this from work so I don't have the error messages handy.
The machine keeps complaining that a media change was detected on one
of the CD drives.
> >I recently installed an IOMEGA CDRW drive in my machine to go with my
> >old BTC CDROM Driver. They are configured so that
>
> >CDRW - Secondary Master (hdc)
> >CDROM - Secondary Slave (hdd)
> My setup is the opposite, my CD drive is /dev/hdc, and the CDRW is
/dev/hdd.
> That shouldn't make any real difference, though.
>
> >Following the instructions in the CD-Writing HOWTO I compiled my
kernel
> >(2.2.17) with the appropriate modules (ide-cd and ide-scsi etc)
> Did you also configure generic scsi support?
>
> >I also configured my conf.modules to for ide-cd to ignore hdc (the RW
> >drive) and put the append commands in my lilo.conf for hdc to be used
> >by ide-scsi.
> I went a different route. In one of my initialization scripts
> /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, I do the following:
> /sbin/modprobe ide-cd
> /sbin/modprobe aic7xxx
> /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi
>
> and in /etc/modules.conf, I have
> options ide-cd ignore=hdd (this would have to be ignore=hdc for you,
of
> course). When I'm done booting, I see the following when I do an
lsmod:
> Module Size Used by
> sg 12608 0 (autoclean)
> sr_mod 14920 0 (autoclean)
> ide-scsi 7348 0
> aic7xxx 136740 0
> scsi_mod 52568 5 [sd_mod sg sr_mod ide-scsi aic7xxx]
> ide-cd 23800 0
> cdrom 27196 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
>
> >For some reason I can only use ide-cd or ide-scsi at any point in
time,
> >which is a bit of a problem if I want to copy data off an existing
CD-
> >ROM. Also the various CD copying tools won't work if the source cd is
> >IDE rather the emulated SCSI.
> You don't really explain what you mean by "I can only use ide-cd or
ide-scsi
> at any point in time". How are you trying to mount the devices? What
> device names (/dev/???) are you trying to use? The CDRW can be
referenced
> at least two ways: /dev/scd? and /dev/sr? . If you're using mkisofs
and
> cdrecord, I believe it also uses /dev/sg? for it as a character
device.
I don't have a SCSI card in my box so I just need ide-scsi compiled. If
I try to use ide-cd it then ide-scsi can't find /dev/hdc which is the
rw drive. If I insmod ide-scsi first then ide-cd can't find /dev/hdd
which is the CD-ROM drive.
At the moment i'm running with ide-scsi support only, but I still get
loads of error messages appearing in dmesg
Ho Hum...
Steve
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Issues with SCSI Tape Unit
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 21:01:26 -0400
> Hope someone could help a newbie?
>
> I have a scsi tape unit and I am trying to mount it to get a backup off
> of it. I have used
> mt -f /dev/st0 status and it has displayed the following:
> SCSI 2 tape drive:
> File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
> Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x13 (DDS (61000 bpi)).
> Soft error count since last status=0
> General status bits on (41010000):
> BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
>
> How can I mount the tape os I can get the backup off???!
You don't mount tape units, you read them as a character stream. How was
the data saved onto tape? For example if the data was saved using tar,
then
tar -xf /dev/st0
should read your tape.
Good luck,
Andrew.
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Reply-To: "Haniel G. Mercedes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Haniel G. Mercedes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Raid Problems "mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential
clues. " in 2.2.14 kernel rh6.1
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:36:02 -0400
I have a MegaRaid controller (NetRaid) in a HP-LXr8500 server, I just
installed Linux rh6.1 running 2.2.14 kernel, so I am trying to configure a
Raid 0
using raid tools v0.90, but I am having some problems;
According to
http://sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/slackware/slackware/docs/Linux-HOWTO/HP
-HOWTO there is an info that says:
For the RedHat 6.1 distribution, the MegaRaid driver provided
By the kernel does support only the first logical drive. In order
to obtain the others, please recompile a 2.2.14 standard kernel.
If you want to obtain that info, search at the document for "-DHP", the next
paragraph will be the info.
First:
I tried with a new kernel version like 2.2.15 or 2.2.16, but when I try to
boot with both of the new kernels the system hang. I tried with the rh6.2
CD and I got the same error.
This is the mesg that appear at the screen monitor:
===================================================================
blah ......
blah blah......
blah blah blah.......
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.16
entry at 0xfdaca
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: probing pci hardware
PCI: 00:c0[0e11/6010] Scanning per hosts bridge
PCI: Scanning compaq per hosts bridge 18/00
PCI: 00:c8[0e11/6010] Scanning compaq per hosts bridge
PCI: Scanning compaq per hosts bridge 19/00
PCI: 00:d0[0e11/6010] Scanning compaq per hosts bridge
PCI: Scanning compaq per hosts bridge 1a/00
After this the system HANGS.
===================================================================
Basically in this case I think that the problem is when rh6.2 is probing the
PCI buses, its hang probing the third PCI bus SCSI at the NetRaid
controller.
I could boot with rh6.2 CD if I remove the NetRaid card from the server
HP-LXr8500, wherever, I thought that I was not doing that the info says
and I began doing that the doc says step by step..........
===================================================================
Ok........
I upgraded from 2.2.12 to 2.2.14 Kernel but I could not find a raid patch
for 2.2.14 Kernel,
the last recent patch that I got, was raidtools-19990824-0.90.tar.gz, so I
did not patch the kernel with this old patch kernel.
Anyway with 2.2.14 kernel, I can see all raid disks from my raid controller,
so I sliced all disk as a "Linux raid" type "fd",
also made the raids partitions, but when I tried to use the raid tools, I
could not be able to define a raid 0,
I really think that I defined the /etc/raidtab file correctly and my
/proc/mdstat looks like is good.
Report Problem:
[root@puma /root]# mkraid /dev/md0
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/sdc1, 17775891kB, raid superblock at 17775808kB
disk 1: /dev/sdd1, 17775891kB, raid superblock at 17775808kB
disk 2: /dev/sde1, 17775891kB, raid superblock at 17775808kB
disk 3: /dev/sdf1, 17775891kB, raid superblock at 17775808kB
disk 4: /dev/sdg1, 17775891kB, raid superblock at 17775808kB
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
[root@puma /root]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0]
read_ahead not set
md0 : inactive
md1 : inactive
md2 : inactive
md3 : inactive
[root@puma /root]# cat /etc/raidtab
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 0
persistent-superblock 1
chunk-size 8
nr-raid-disks 5
nr-spare-disks 0
device /dev/sdc1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdd1
raid-disk 1
device /dev/sde1
raid-disk 2
device /dev/sdf1
raid-disk 3
device /dev/sdg1
raid-disk 4
I just looked at /var/log/dmesg and dmesg command and there is not problem
with this.
I just upgraded the Server BIOS to last version from any HW problem.
(NetRaid Card)
Any help please?
Any new raid patch for 2.2.(14, 15,16,17) ?
or Do I need a (especial PCI Driver or something like that)?
Sorry for my English, it is no my native language.
Haniel Mercedes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reply-To: "Haniel G. Mercedes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Haniel G. Mercedes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Raid Problems "mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential
clues. " in 2.2.14 kernel rh6.1
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:36:16 -0400
I have a MegaRaid controller (NetRaid) in a HP-LXr8500 server, I just
installed Linux rh6.1 running 2.2.14 kernel, so I am trying to configure a
Raid 0
using raid tools v0.90, but I am having some problems;
According to
http://sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/slackware/slackware/docs/Linux-HOWTO/HP
-HOWTO there is an info that says:
For the RedHat 6.1 distribution, the MegaRaid driver provided
By the kernel does support only the first logical drive. In order
to obtain the others, please recompile a 2.2.14 standard kernel.
If you want to obtain that info, search at the document for "-DHP", the next
paragraph will be the info.
First:
I tried with a new kernel version like 2.2.15 or 2.2.16, but when I try to
boot with both of the new kernels the system hang. I tried with the rh6.2
CD and I got the same error.
This is the mesg that appear at the screen monitor:
===================================================================
blah ......
blah blah......
blah blah blah.......
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.16
entry at 0xfdaca
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: probing pci hardware
PCI: 00:c0[0e11/6010] Scanning per hosts bridge
PCI: Scanning compaq per hosts bridge 18/00
PCI: 00:c8[0e11/6010] Scanning compaq per hosts bridge
PCI: Scanning compaq per hosts bridge 19/00
PCI: 00:d0[0e11/6010] Scanning compaq per hosts bridge
PCI: Scanning compaq per hosts bridge 1a/00
After this the system HANGS.
===================================================================
Basically in this case I think that the problem is when rh6.2 is probing the
PCI buses, its hang probing the third PCI bus SCSI at the NetRaid
controller.
I could boot with rh6.2 CD if I remove the NetRaid card from the server
HP-LXr8500, wherever, I thought that I was not doing that the info says
and I began doing that the doc says step by step..........
===================================================================
Ok........
I upgraded from 2.2.12 to 2.2.14 Kernel but I could not find a raid patch
for 2.2.14 Kernel,
the last recent patch that I got, was raidtools-19990824-0.90.tar.gz, so I
did not patch the kernel with this old patch kernel.
Anyway with 2.2.14 kernel, I can see all raid disks from my raid controller,
so I sliced all disk as a "Linux raid" type "fd",
also made the raids partitions, but when I tried to use the raid tools, I
could not be able to define a raid 0,
I really think that I defined the /etc/raidtab file correctly and my
/proc/mdstat looks like is good.
Report Problem:
[root@puma /root]# mkraid /dev/md0
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/sdc1, 17775891kB, raid superblock at 17775808kB
disk 1: /dev/sdd1, 17775891kB, raid superblock at 17775808kB
disk 2: /dev/sde1, 17775891kB, raid superblock at 17775808kB
disk 3: /dev/sdf1, 17775891kB, raid superblock at 17775808kB
disk 4: /dev/sdg1, 17775891kB, raid superblock at 17775808kB
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
[root@puma /root]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0]
read_ahead not set
md0 : inactive
md1 : inactive
md2 : inactive
md3 : inactive
[root@puma /root]# cat /etc/raidtab
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 0
persistent-superblock 1
chunk-size 8
nr-raid-disks 5
nr-spare-disks 0
device /dev/sdc1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdd1
raid-disk 1
device /dev/sde1
raid-disk 2
device /dev/sdf1
raid-disk 3
device /dev/sdg1
raid-disk 4
I just looked at /var/log/dmesg and dmesg command and there is not problem
with this.
I just upgraded the Server BIOS to last version from any HW problem.
(NetRaid Card)
Any help please?
Any new raid patch for 2.2.(14, 15,16,17) ?
or Do I need a (especial PCI Driver or something like that)?
Sorry for my English, it is no my native language.
Haniel Mercedes
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