hello folks! i've got four HP NetServers, two LC2000r and two LH6000r. the CentOS 4.2 ServerCD can't see hard drives on any of them. each machine has a HP NetRAID controller; the LC2000rs have a NetRAID-1Si and the LH6000rs have an Integrated NetRAID. each controller has three 9GB drives, two mirrored and one hotspare. each machine boots ok (the LC2000rs need "linux noacpi" or they complain about being in a weird power management state and panic), each loads the megaraid driver, but none of them can see any volumes. fixes i have already tried: 1) on the LH6000rs i have disabled "Smart IRQ" reallocation; on the LC2000rs i have disabled "Reserve PCI Bus Numbers" as described in this document: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HP-HOWTO/hp-hardware.html#AEN792 these fixes have made the megaraid driver stop complaining about IRQ conflicts or routing errors. 2) i have tried switching each NetRAID controller from I20 to "Mass Storage" mode; no change. 3) i have tried manually adding the i2o_block driver; no change. has anyone encountered similar problems with this hardware? better yet, has anyone resolved them? any other ideas? do i need to do anything to the logical volumes on the NetRAIDs other than create and initialize them? i'm currently downloading the full CentOS install media, in case this is some sort of deficiency in the ServerCD. thanks, steve --- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v
Paul Schoonderwoerd
2006-Jan-20 16:18 UTC
[CentOS] HP NetServer LC2000r and LH6000r install woes
Steve, Check the releasenotes on redhat.com. The old Netraid controllers are declared obsolete in ES4. Not sure how to resolve this. I guess you will need to use the old driver at boottime. Paul On Friday 20 January 2006 17:02, Steve Huff wrote:> hello folks! > > i've got four HP NetServers, two LC2000r and two LH6000r. the CentOS > 4.2 ServerCD can't see hard drives on any of them. > > each machine has a HP NetRAID controller; the LC2000rs have a > NetRAID-1Si and the LH6000rs have an Integrated NetRAID. each > controller has three 9GB drives, two mirrored and one hotspare. > > each machine boots ok (the LC2000rs need "linux noacpi" or they > complain about being in a weird power management state and panic), > each loads the megaraid driver, but none of them can see any volumes. > > fixes i have already tried: > > 1) on the LH6000rs i have disabled "Smart IRQ" reallocation; on the > LC2000rs i have disabled "Reserve PCI Bus Numbers" as described in > this document: > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HP-HOWTO/hp-hardware.html#AEN792 > > these fixes have made the megaraid driver stop complaining about IRQ > conflicts or routing errors. > > 2) i have tried switching each NetRAID controller from I20 to "Mass > Storage" mode; no change. > > 3) i have tried manually adding the i2o_block driver; no change. > > has anyone encountered similar problems with this hardware? better > yet, has anyone resolved them? any other ideas? > > do i need to do anything to the logical volumes on the NetRAIDs other > than create and initialize them? > > i'm currently downloading the full CentOS install media, in case this > is some sort of deficiency in the ServerCD. > > thanks, > steve > > --- > If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an > improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- Paul Schoonderwoerd Pollux IT - Open Source & Netwerkbeveiliging tel: 0294-283832 http://www.Pollux-IT.nl
i tried 4.2 on a hp lh3000 , its appearently a RAID issue , went back to 3.6 and and running rock solid Russ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Huff" <shuff at vecna.org> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:02 AM Subject: [CentOS] HP NetServer LC2000r and LH6000r install woes> hello folks! > > i've got four HP NetServers, two LC2000r and two LH6000r. the CentOS 4.2 > ServerCD can't see hard drives on any of them. > > each machine has a HP NetRAID controller; the LC2000rs have a NetRAID-1Si > and the LH6000rs have an Integrated NetRAID. each controller has three > 9GB drives, two mirrored and one hotspare. > > each machine boots ok (the LC2000rs need "linux noacpi" or they complain > about being in a weird power management state and panic), each loads the > megaraid driver, but none of them can see any volumes. > > fixes i have already tried: > > 1) on the LH6000rs i have disabled "Smart IRQ" reallocation; on the > LC2000rs i have disabled "Reserve PCI Bus Numbers" as described in this > document: > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HP-HOWTO/hp-hardware.html#AEN792 > > these fixes have made the megaraid driver stop complaining about IRQ > conflicts or routing errors. > > 2) i have tried switching each NetRAID controller from I20 to "Mass > Storage" mode; no change. > > 3) i have tried manually adding the i2o_block driver; no change. > > has anyone encountered similar problems with this hardware? better yet, > has anyone resolved them? any other ideas? > > do i need to do anything to the logical volumes on the NetRAIDs other > than create and initialize them? > > i'm currently downloading the full CentOS install media, in case this is > some sort of deficiency in the ServerCD. > > thanks, > steve > > --- > If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable > fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >