Installing on scsi raid drives

[Geoff Rainey]

Yes this can be a very tricky process.

At the beginning of the Linux install at the command prompt, type the
following:

linux noprobe

>From there you will get to a screen which has a big list of drivers to
load for 
the installation, you will need to select those drivers that are
applicable to your 
Hardware. To find out what drivers are applicable to your hardware
requires
One to identify each driver and associate that with each component. For 
Instance my motherboard had an Adaptec 7901x scsi controller which
Requires the AIC79xx driver, so I selected that. I also had to do the
same
For the Network card, and any others but I think that was all I
selected. The Redhat
Enterprise install then saw my scsi disks properly.

Hopefully you don't need to do this and you can get a driver disk from
the
HP website. The driver disk will probably be an image that you'll write
onto
A floppy, or cd, then during the install at the prompt, instead of
typing
"linux noprobe", you'll type "linux dd".

Regards,
Geofrey.


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of dbrett at tcn.net
Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2007 2:42 p.m.
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Subject: RE: Installing on scsi raid drives

Ok this is beyond my knowledge.  I can look for the driver, but how do
you load the driver manually?

david

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Geoff Rainey wrote:

> I have recently had the same problem with an Adaptec scsi raid 
> controller
> (7901x) whereby the install would not detect the disks. Since this 
> Adaptec Controller driver should have been available for this install,

> I had to select "linux noprobe" to forcibly load the driver manually 
> which resolved my issue - though caused another issue resulting in a 
> kernel recompile of a kernel.org kernel.
>
> These issues are generally resolved by the availability of a "driver 
> disk" for A piece of hardware from the manufacturer's website, such as

> the HP site under support and drivers, if you're using HP gear.
>
> Regards,
> Geofrey.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of dbrett at tcn.net
> Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2007 9:11 a.m.
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> Subject: Re: Installing on scsi raid drives
>
> Unfortunately, It does not see the drive.  It is a working drive 
> because it has an older version of another Linux running on it.
>
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Ali, Saqib wrote:
>
>> if it is a hardware RAID then you don't have to do anything. FC6 
>> should just see it as a single storage unit (Harddrive)
>>
>> I have few DL380 with hardware raid running FC6/RH4, and I didn't 
>> have
>
>> to do anything special.
>>
>> saqib
>> http://security-basics.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/29/07, dbrett at tcn.net <dbrett at tcn.net> wrote:
>>> I am new to install FC6 on SCSI hardware RAID drives.
>>>
>>> I am trying to install FC6 on Compact DL380 with three discs in a 
>>> RAID 5 configuration.  When I try FC6 does not see the drive.  What 
>>> do I have to do for FC6 to see the hardware RAID disc?
>>>
>>> My search has come across anything useful.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> david
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