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

[Liam Marshall]

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


----- Original Message -----
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 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?
> 
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