Bug#228964: [alex@nibbles.it: Re: Bug#228964: Sarge beta2 installer and LSI Logic MegaRaid controller]
- Forwarded message from Alessandro Polverini [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Subject: Re: Bug#228964: Sarge beta2 installer and LSI Logic MegaRaid controller From: Alessandro Polverini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:15:51 +0100 Hello David, On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 06:38, David Nusinow wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:20:30PM +0100, Alessandro Polverini wrote: Here is the relevant rows from lspci and lspci-n: 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 1000Base? (rev 12) 02:05.0 Class 0200: 10b7:1700 (rev 12) The corrisponding driver is 'sk98lin'. Great. Thank you. I'll fix this right away. Thanks to you! :) What about point #3, related to Megaraid2 driver? Can you give me a few more details? Does the megaraid driver not work? If the device should definitely be using the megaraid2 driver, send me the relevant lspci and lspci -n listings for that too, and I'll fix discover for that as well. Thanks! 02:0b.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 4 (rev 01) 02:0b.0 Class 0104: 1000:1960 (rev 01) I think that it should definitely use the megaraid2 driver, for a number of reasons: - much more modern driver, supporting also very recent controllers - supports /proc/megadrive interface, necessary for monitoring the health of the array Also, beware that in linux 2.6 the old megaraid driver has been dumped and megaraid2 has been renamed megaraid again... So, I think that the installer should be smart enough to use megaraid2 or megaraid depending on the release of the kernel instaling. Last thing: after installing sarge on my server with both raid disks (megaraid) and one ide disk, the system booted and worked well from the raid disk but the ide controller was not detected (piix). I had to put extra modules in /etc/modules to make it work, but in this way /etc/init.d/hdparm does not work because it starts _before_ loading modules from /etc/modules. Thanks for your time, and please tell me if I could be of any help, Alex - End forwarded message - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#228964: Sarge beta2 installer and LSI Logic MegaRaid controller
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:15:51PM +0100, Alessandro Polverini wrote: 02:0b.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 4 (rev 01) 02:0b.0 Class 0104: 1000:1960 (rev 01) I think that it should definitely use the megaraid2 driver, for a number of reasons: - much more modern driver, supporting also very recent controllers - supports /proc/megadrive interface, necessary for monitoring the health of the array Ok, it sounds like this would be the better choice. I'll change it so that it uses megaraid2. Also, beware that in linux 2.6 the old megaraid driver has been dumped and megaraid2 has been renamed megaraid again... So, I think that the installer should be smart enough to use megaraid2 or megaraid depending on the release of the kernel instaling. Unfortunately, this isn't going to happen right away due to limitations with discover1. See #229437 for an explanation. Last thing: after installing sarge on my server with both raid disks (megaraid) and one ide disk, the system booted and worked well from the raid disk but the ide controller was not detected (piix). I had to put extra modules in /etc/modules to make it work, but in this way /etc/init.d/hdparm does not work because it starts _before_ loading modules from /etc/modules. Discover didn't detect your ide controller either? Ok, you know the drill :-) lspci; lspci -n; and the right module and I'll fix this too. As for the hdparm issue, I really don't know what to tell you. You may simply want to compile a custom kernel with the module built in. Thanks for your time, and please tell me if I could be of any help, My pleasure. Thanks for being prompt with responses. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#228964: Sarge beta2 installer and LSI Logic MegaRaid controller
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:20:30PM +0100, Alessandro Polverini wrote: Here is the relevant rows from lspci and lspci-n: 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 1000Base? (rev 12) 02:05.0 Class 0200: 10b7:1700 (rev 12) The corrisponding driver is 'sk98lin'. Great. Thank you. I'll fix this right away. What about point #3, related to Megaraid2 driver? Can you give me a few more details? Does the megaraid driver not work? If the device should definitely be using the megaraid2 driver, send me the relevant lspci and lspci -n listings for that too, and I'll fix discover for that as well. Thanks! - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#228964: [alex@nibbles.it: Re: Bug#228964: Sarge beta2 installer and LSI Logic MegaRaid controller]
- Forwarded message from Alessandro Polverini [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Subject: Re: Bug#228964: Sarge beta2 installer and LSI Logic MegaRaid controller From: Alessandro Polverini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:20:30 +0100 On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 01:01, David Nusinow wrote: Hi Alessandro, [...] 2) No driver could be found for the integrate 3Com 3c940 gigabit network card Do you know which module is supposed to be loaded? If so, can you post that, along with the output of lspci and lspci -n so we can let discover load the correct driver? Here is the relevant rows from lspci and lspci-n: 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 1000Base? (rev 12) 02:05.0 Class 0200: 10b7:1700 (rev 12) The corrisponding driver is 'sk98lin'. What about point #3, related to Megaraid2 driver? Thanks! Alex - End forwarded message - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#228964: Sarge beta2 installer and LSI Logic MegaRaid controller
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: beta2 uname -a: Linux svr1 2.4.24-1-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Jan 6 22:37:23 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 21-1-2004 23:00 Method: net cd, then from network, using debian.fastweb.it mirror Machine: hand made server with LSI Logic MegaRaid 320-1 controller Processor: Pentium IV 2.6Ghz Memory: 1Gb ECC Root Device: /dev/sda1 Root Size/partition table: /dev/sda1 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda3 /home reiserfsdefaults0 2 /dev/sda2 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/fd0/floppy autorw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdc/cdrom autoro,user,noauto 0 0 proc/proc procdefaults0 0 Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82875P Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB2 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev c2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB SMBus Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 1000Base? (rev 12) 02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: MYSON Technology Inc SURECOM EP-320X-S 100/10M Ethernet PCI Adapter 02:0b.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 4 (rev 01) 02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [E] Config network: [E] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[O] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: 1) After boot, the two ethernet cards were swapped Is there any way to ensure that 'discover' gives each time the same order to ethernet cards? 2) No driver could be found for the integrate 3Com 3c940 gigabit network card 3) A old 2.4.22 kernel has been installed. Not only this kernel has security problems, but has an old megaraid driver. I suggest using 2.4.24 kernel and the new and much improved megaraid2 driver. Also, I'm not really sure of what is the best method to tell the system to use the 'megaraid2' driver on boot and not the 'megaraid'. A reply on that issue would be very welcome :) 4) It would be nice to have the possibility to choose postfix and grub instead of exim and lilo during install. Thanks for the excellent work and keep up making the best linux distro ever! ;) Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
