HP ML150 G2 Embedded SATA controller with Fedora

[mmmhurritech]

I'm trying to install Fedora Core 4 without any luck. I have used the RedHat ES4 and ES3 and even ES4 64bit without any luck.

I have tried many different ways. With FC4 I only see one way of adding drives by using the "linux dd" command. I also have tried using linux dd acpi=off because of what someone else in the forums suggested.

The hard drives are SATA 160gb's in a RAID 1. It looks like the array is working fine but when the install starts, I get the "no hard drive found" message.

Suggestions?

[The Spartan]

ML150 G2 SATA would not support suse, RH or even Fedora.

[Massimo_40]

I don't know if can be useful for you, i found this article about the ML 150 Sata Controller
http://www.h07.org/?q=node/40, i was not able to use this information, but i think that if u install on a ide drive as primary master (you must boot from floppy to install fedora) and compile modules for FC you may correctly install the controller, i also found an article on linuxquestions. org about the same problem.
Bye

[Massimo_40]

Sorry I wrote an incorrect address the correct is:
http://www.h07.org/?q=node/40
Bye

[Sebastián A. La Spina]

Hello there, well, my english is poor so, like an indian :)
I have been instaled fedora 4 en a ML150 G2 last week, i red a little how to:
http://www.keffective.com/mvsata/
and..
http://ukai.org/b/log/hp/proliant
http://www.edoceo.com/liber/marvell-sata.php

There are some tricks, so I´ve downloaded the patched driver source at:

http://www.keffective.com/mvsata/FC3/mvSata-3.4.2a-patched.tbz ,compile it and probe it!

There is a i686 compiled driver for u brand new fedora after install it: http://www.keffective.com/mvsata/FC3/mvsata-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.tgz
driver module for ur 1329 kernel version. (to install fedora u need the i586 one).
Finally, I install a CentOS 4.2... its more similar to RHEL4 (its has HP support.
Tell me if its works! If not come back! I have the compiled drivers for all Stages of CentOS instalation. :P

Sebastián A. La Spina
3GByte Tech.

[mmmhurritech]

Thanks for the replies. I've used a lot of the links in particular the http://www.keffective.com/mvsata/ .

I started the Fedora installation, got into GUI install mode, switched over to a console so that I could install the pre-compibled FC4 Marvell SATA drivers for my architecture [i686] and my kernel version [FC4 2.6.11-1.1369]. It looked like everything was successful except for the dreaded

no version for "struct module" found
&
partition table unknown

when I do a dmesg in the console. I attributed the second message to the face that the hard drives are not setup yet but if I do an fdisk, they say that the /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are unknown and cannot be accessed.

I'm going to try to compile the drivers myself but it looks to be the driver I need.

I changed my drive configuration and deleted the array in the SATA controller bios - before I had the hardware creating the array - I can plan to just use the software raid instead.

What did you have for your hard drive configuration on the controller? JBOD? RAID? something else?

Any other helpful suggestions?

[Sebastián A. La Spina]

Men! U must use the i586 architecture one to wake up the drivers under the instalation process, then, before reboot the system, alt+F2 again, and copy the mv_sata.ko (i686 one) to the mnt/sysimage/lib/modules/2.6.11.1-1369/kernel/drivers/scsi/ .
and finally do the depmod and mkinit stuff.
The i686 one is used after the instalation finished to boot up ur system. May be a i586 compiled driver is here :
http://www.keffective.com/mvsata/FC3/mvsata-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.tgz
Do a
--
bash$ strings mv_sata.ko |grep magic
--
to see wich kernel version it has.
Hope for luck this shot.
Saludos!

Sebas

[Sebastian Ivanisky]

Where are you from Sebas?

[Sebastián A. La Spina]

Hi! Im From Argentina, and you?
How about this issue!? solved? if some one have dificults getting up his disk just write me!
slaspina@3gbyte.com.ar

saludos a todos!

Sebastián A.