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

[David H. Barr]

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 I
> get the following:

«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). 
> Still nothing.

Over the weekend I just downloaded k12ltsp 4.1.1 based on FC2, and that's working fine.  I got five workstations booted today, and 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 release; think it would be safe to give it a whack?  Since I don't have any active users yet, I'll probably just go for it unless I hear something significant back from the list.

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

PS: I have seen a few discussions on changing out NFS swap for local swap; I have -not- seen details of how this can be accomplished.  Any links / pointers?