Xen users - Sep 2006 - Xen on Dell PowerEdge 1850 with Perc 4e/Si controller

Hello,

I am having issues making my box boot with Xen. I am
working with linux-2.6.16.28-xen on a gentoo box. The
server is Dell PowerEdge 1850 with Perc 4e/Si, FW
521X. When dom0 reaches the point of scanning the SCSI
controllers, it hangs in a loop
aic7xxx_dev_reset_returns 0x2002. My regular (non-xen)
kernels come up fine with detecting my adaptec scsi
controller.

Had anyone had the same issue?


Thanks!


-igor

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The driver for the raid controller is megaraid_mbox. If your OS is on 
the raid drive, then it''s better to compile it into kernel.

Simon

Igor M. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having issues making my box boot with Xen. I am
> working with linux-2.6.16.28-xen on a gentoo box. The
> server is Dell PowerEdge 1850 with Perc 4e/Si, FW
> 521X. When dom0 reaches the point of scanning the SCSI
> controllers, it hangs in a loop
> aic7xxx_dev_reset_returns 0x2002. My regular (non-xen)
> kernels come up fine with detecting my adaptec scsi
> controller.
>
> Had anyone had the same issue?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> -igor
>
> ----------------------
> I.M., M.Eng.
> ----------------------
>
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It is compiled in the kernel. However the kernel refuses to boot.
When I run the generic non-xen kernel, I see my drives as following:

Does anyone know why the drives come up as Adaptec, and not megaraid? The
drives are in hardware raid configuration.


Thanks again,

-igor

appserv ~ # dmesg | grep Adaptec
scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 7.0
        <Adaptec 3960D Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 7.0
        <Adaptec 3960D Ultra160 SCSI adapter> Adaptec aacraid driver
(1.1-5[2409]-mh1)

appserv ~ # dmesg | grep raid   
Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-5[2409]-mh1) megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.6 (Release
Date: Mon Mar 7 00:01:03 EST 2005)
megaraid: 2.20.4.8 (Release Date: Mon Apr 11 12:27:22 EST 2006)
megaraid: probe new device 0x1028:0x0013:0x1028:0x016c: bus 2:slot 14:func 0
megaraid: fw version:[521X] bios version:[H430]
scsi[2]: scanning scsi channel 0 [Phy 0] for non-raid devices
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1




-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Gao [mailto:gao@schrodinger.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 2:14 PM
To: Igor M.
Cc: xen-users@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen on Dell PowerEdge 1850 with Perc 4e/Si
controller

The driver for the raid controller is megaraid_mbox. If your OS is on 
the raid drive, then it''s better to compile it into kernel.

Simon

Igor M. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having issues making my box boot with Xen. I am
> working with linux-2.6.16.28-xen on a gentoo box. The
> server is Dell PowerEdge 1850 with Perc 4e/Si, FW
> 521X. When dom0 reaches the point of scanning the SCSI
> controllers, it hangs in a loop
> aic7xxx_dev_reset_returns 0x2002. My regular (non-xen)
> kernels come up fine with detecting my adaptec scsi
> controller.
>
> Had anyone had the same issue?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> -igor
>
> ----------------------
> I.M., M.Eng.
> ----------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xen-users mailing list
> Xen-users@lists.xensource.com
> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
>   

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