[K12OSN] HP NetRaid (LSI MegaRaid) & invisible drives

[David H. Barr]

Around Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:26 PM,
Liam Marshall (mailto:lsrpm-1 at shaw.ca) wrote:
 
> From: "David H. Barr" <david at okgoodwill.org>
> Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 4:48 pm
> Subject: RE: [K12OSN] HP NetRaid (LSI MegaRaid) & invisible drives

>> Around Friday, March 11, 2005 1:44 PM,
>> David H. Barr () wrote:

>>>>> Apparently (from what I've gathered) FC3 and HP NetRaids don't
>>>>> play>>> well together.  Anyone on the Fedora lists forward this
>>>>> for me?  The
>>>>> actual part is known as "HP NetRAID 1si" / "LSI MegaRAID Express
>>>>> 200" / "Dell PERC2/SE", and apparently this was at one time "Bug
>>>>> 135484" for Fedora Core 3... help?

>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=138590
>>>> You might try the driver disk mentioned in comment #22.

>>> Thanks for that tip, Dan.  It got me over the initial install hump.
>>> I successfully walked through a noprobe install, but then on reboot

>> «snip scsi-related "no volume" error messages»

>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-
>>> December/msg01164.html> is the only other place I can find a
>>> reference to this bug other than
>>> 135484 and 138590.  As per those suggestions, I've booted off of a
>>> Fedora Core 2 rescue CD (FC3 resc displays same misbehaviour) and
>>> edited my /etc/modprobe.conf (replaced megaraid_mbox with megaraid).

>> boy are they fast!  The only thing I'm worried about now is how to
>> update my system to the most recent packages without running into
>> the megaraid / FC3 issue.  I've heard it's fixed in the rawhide

> I have 4.2 running fine on a lsi megaraid 150 using 4 drives, raid 5
> with a hot spare no problem out of the box.  guess I got lucky. 
> didn't know there was a problem with megaraid and fc3

Would you mind sharing your /etc/modprobe.conf, at least the alias_scsihostadapter entries?

Thanks,
David H. Barr
Sys / Net Admin
Oklahoma Goodwill Industries
410 SW Third ST
Oklahoma City, OK 73109