[rhn-users] RH4 Install Problem - "No hard drives found" (Adaptec 2005S 0-channel controller)

[Brian R Smith]

Matt,

> I tried making an Adaptec driver disk, but that didn't work 
> (apparently RH uses a different i2o driver now, so the RH3 driver from
> Adaptec won't work (how nice)).

This makes sense.  EL3 runs a 2.4.x series kernel while EL4 uses 2.6.x.
There is no way that driver disk would work.

Now... from what I was able to dig up:

The ASR-2005S has been broken in I2O since 2.6 was released.  Only
recently has there been a patch to fix this.  It is likely that RedHat
has not included this driver for stability reasons as it was a fairly
recent patch in relation to the time EL4 was frozen.

http://natasha.stmarytx.edu/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.8-rc1

Search for '2005S'.

I wouldn't count on being able to install EL4 on the volume hosted by
that controller.  You should either stick with EL3 or you could go
through the rather hairy process of rebuilding the installer image with
the kernel image and initrd you need.

Though... I could be wrong.

-Brian

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 15:08 -0500, Matt Allen wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I'm trying to install RHEL ESv4 on a 1U SuperMicro server that uses a
> 0-channel Adaptect 2005S as the RAID controller. This box used to run
> RH 9, and I've got ESv3 installed on there now, but v4 keeps coming up
> with 'No hard drives have been found' and so the installation becomes
> useless (why it even continues to the next step, I don't know). I've
> opened a ticket with RedHat but it isn't going anywhere useful, not
> yet at least. I tried making an Adaptec driver disk, but that didn't
> work (apparently RH uses a different i2o driver now, so the RH3 driver
> from Adaptec won't work (how nice)). The last thing I got from RedHat
> was that my controller isn't supported, and I find it hard to believe
> that they removed support from a RAID controller in the new version of
> the driver (but maybe they did...).
> 
> I'm open to any and all suggestions that might move my RH4
> installation forward...
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Matt
> -- 
> Matt Allen
> Systems Administrator
> Solutions4eBiz
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