Re: dpt_i2o and i2o_block on amd64 etch

2007-05-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:26:13PM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: Thanks very much, that's reassuring. I still have a tiny doubt, however, since I remember CentOS x86_64 did not recognize the disks at first, but then gave you an option during the install to manually select a driver, which

Re: dpt_i2o and i2o_block on amd64 etch

2007-05-14 Thread Neil Gunton
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Well there has always been the option of going to the console on tty2 and telling it to load the driver, and going back to the installer on console 1 and continuing. I've never done that (at install time anyway) - are you talking about just using something like

Re: dpt_i2o and i2o_block on amd64 etch

2007-05-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:59:17AM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: I've never done that (at install time anyway) - are you talking about just using something like modprobe or insmod? Yes using modprobe (insmod should almost never be used manually). I always thought Adaptec was a pretty major

Re: dpt_i2o and i2o_block on amd64 etch

2007-05-14 Thread Neil Gunton
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:59:17AM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: I've never done that (at install time anyway) - are you talking about just using something like modprobe or insmod? Yes using modprobe (insmod should almost never be used manually). I always thought Adaptec

Re: dpt_i2o and i2o_block on amd64 etch

2007-05-14 Thread C M Reinehr
On Monday 14 May 2007 11:09, Neil Gunton wrote: Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:59:17AM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: I've never done that (at install time anyway) - are you talking about just using something like modprobe or insmod? Yes using modprobe (insmod should

Re: dpt_i2o and i2o_block on amd64 etch

2007-05-14 Thread Neil Gunton
C M Reinehr wrote: I don't know if the i2o_block issues were specifically with 64-bit, 32-bit or whatever. I was somewhat surprised to find that when I did searches for dpt_i2o and i2o_block and AMD64 last week, some of the top results were from my own thread here on installing on AMD64 two

Re: dpt_i2o and i2o_block on amd64 etch

2007-05-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:56:03AM -0500, C M Reinehr wrote: I can't say for sure whether it's i2o_block that's causing the problem, but I have a dual-Opteron server that's running up-to-date Etch with md RAID-1. It seems that about once a month or so when I check my logs I see that one of

Re: dpt_i2o and i2o_block on amd64 etch

2007-05-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:28:10PM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: Thanks, that's useful. I will probably end up installing using the i2o_block (if that turns out to be possible) and then roll my own using dpt_i2o. Somehow using the official Adaptec driver feels better. I have no idea why it

Re: dpt_i2o and i2o_block on amd64 etch

2007-05-14 Thread Neil Gunton
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:28:10PM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: Thanks, that's useful. I will probably end up installing using the i2o_block (if that turns out to be possible) and then roll my own using dpt_i2o. Somehow using the official Adaptec driver feels better. I

Re: dpt_i2o and i2o_block on amd64 etch

2007-05-14 Thread C M Reinehr
On Monday 14 May 2007 12:56, Neil Gunton wrote: I can forward Mark's email address (and the last version of the dpt_i2o driver he sent me) to anyone who's interested. Yes, I would appreciate that. Thanks! cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice.

Re: dpt_i2o and i2o_block on amd64 etch

2007-05-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:01:21PM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: I installed a server back in 2005 which has an Adaptec SmartRaid 2015S card. I had problems installing AMD64, which I eventually worked around and documented here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/09/msg00201.html Now

Re: dpt_i2o and i2o_block on amd64 etch

2007-05-11 Thread Neil Gunton
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:01:21PM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: I installed a server back in 2005 which has an Adaptec SmartRaid 2015S card. I had problems installing AMD64, which I eventually worked around and documented here: