HP C1537A SCSI Dat on CompaqDL380 ,RedHat 7.3 Kernel 2.4.18-3

[Badapple_1]

Hi all ,
I am facing problems configuring SCSI Dat Drive on RedHat 7.3 Kernel 2.4.18-3
On Poweron the Dat is detected as

SCSI Port 0 SCSI ID2 HP C1537A TAPE DRIVE
I am using RAID 1 hdds.( 18GB + 18GB)
The Cpq arrays + all other devices gets detected properly except for dat drive .
I have also installed the aic7xxx driver from Compaq site for the adaptec controller .Still no luck
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Dmesg section:
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
cpqarray: Device 0x1000 has been found at bus 0 dev 1 func 0
Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.5)
Found 1 controller(s)
cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (Integrated Array)
cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=35553120
cpqarray: Starting firmware's background processing
blk: queue c0352a40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Partition check:

cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices: none

#lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
eepro100 20336 2
ext3 67136 6
jbd 49400 6 [ext3]
cpqarray 20160 10
sd_mod 12864 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 108576 1 [sd_mod]

cat /etc/modules.conf
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 eepro100
alias eth1 eepro100
alias scsi_hostadapter1 cpqarray
alias scsi_hostadapter2 aic7xxx

grep "CONFIG_SCSI" /boot/config-2.4.18-3
# CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_MEGARAID=m
# CONFIG_SCSI_OMIT_FLASHPOINT is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_TAGGED_QUEUE=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_LINKED_COMMANDS is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_MAX_TAGS=16
# CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR53C400 is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_PORT=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_MEM is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_IPS=m
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=m
CONFIG_SCSI_IMM=m
# CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_EPP16 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_SLOW_CTR is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_sync is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_FAST=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_DISCONNECT=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=32
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_PROFILE is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_IOMAPPED is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=40
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=16
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=64
# CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_IOMAPPED is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_1280=m
CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_QLA2100=m
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FC_FIRMWARE is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE=m
# CONFIG_SCSI_DC390T_NOGENSUPP is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F_LINKED_COMMANDS is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F_MAX_TAGS=8
CONFIG_SCSI_ULTRASTOR=m
CONFIG_SCSI_ISCSI=m
CONFIG_SCSI_PCMCIA=y
CONFIG_SCSI_DPT_I2O=m
## ORIGCONFIG_SCSI=m
CONFIG_SCSI=m
# CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG_QUEUES is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING=y
CONFIG_SCSI_7000FASST=m
CONFIG_SCSI_ACARD=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1740=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AACRAID=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX_OLD=m
CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS=m
CONFIG_SCSI_IN2000=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AM53C974=m
CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC=m
CONFIG_SCSI_CPQFCTS=m
CONFIG_SCSI_DMX3191D=m
CONFIG_SCSI_DTC3280=m
CONFIG_SCSI_EATA=m
CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA=m
CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_PIO=m
CONFIG_SCSI_FUTURE_DOMAIN=m
CONFIG_SCSI_GDTH=m
CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380=m
CONFIG_SCSI_INITIO=m
CONFIG_SCSI_INIA100=m
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A=m
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx=m
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=m
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=8
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=40
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_PQS_PDS is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_PAS16=m
CONFIG_SCSI_PCI2000=m
CONFIG_SCSI_PAS16=m
CONFIG_SCSI_PAS16=m
CONFIG_SCSI_PCI2220I=m
CONFIG_SCSI_PSI240I=m
CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FAS=m
CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP=m
CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FC=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SIM710=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C416=m
CONFIG_SCSI_DC390T=m
CONFIG_SCSI_T128=m
CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F=m
CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG=m

grep "AIC7XXX" /boot/config-2.4.18-3
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_TCQ_ON_BY_DEFAULT=y
# CONFIG_AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS is not set
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY_MS=15000
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=253
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY=5000
# CONFIG_AIC7XXX_BUILD_FIRMWARE is not set
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_OLD_TCQ_ON_BY_DEFAULT=y
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_OLD_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=32
# CONFIG_AIC7XXX_PROBE_EISA_VL is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX_OLD=m
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_OLD_PROC_STATS=y

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modprobe aic7xxx gives a lots of errors
/lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx.o: insmod aic7xxx failed

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I am not clear as to what steps are involved in configuring a dat drive on RedHat 7.3 ;) so please help .

[Stuart Browne · Accepted solution]

If my memory serves me rightly, a DL380 only comes with an On-Board SmartArray 5i.

The only Array controller's that support a tape-drive on the RAID array are those that use the cciss driver.

You appear to be using the cpqarray driver.

Exactally what controllers have you put into this DL machine, and which of these has the tape drive plugged into it?

[Badapple_1]

The Tape Drive is connected to OnBoard SCSI Controller . And Hdd connected to Compaq Integrated SmartArray Controller (1.42 v)

On the MotherBoard the Controller is J2 SCSI Port2 INT.

On external controllers added .

And Thanx for replying

[Stuart Browne]

*blink*

What generation of DL380 is this? Original series, G2, or G3?

Currently, it's sounding like the original series.

None of the DL380's come with an On-Board SCSI controller, that isn't an Array controller:

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10495_na/10495_na.HTML
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10902_na/10902_na.HTML
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11473_na/11473_na.HTML

So first things first, what is that other controller?

From the boot-up sequence (POST), grab the entire init banners, as well as the line that finds the tape. Try not to paraphrase.

This will help us identify which controller things are plugged into.

Also, please confirm that the tape is plugged into an external port somewhere, and is not inside the case (in the hot-swap bay at the top-left corner).

[Badapple_1]

It's the original series DL380 ..
There's a On board Array controller .
"Integrated Smart Array Controller "


The Post sequence "
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Compaq System BIOS -P17 (08/24/2003)
CopyRight .....

Processor Initialized at 800/133 MHz with 256 Kbytes Cache

COMPAQ Integrated Smart Array Controller (ver 1.42 ) 1 Logical Drive
SCSI Port1, ID 02: HP C1537A TAPEDRIVE

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My Dmesg output

Linux version 2.4.18-3 (bhcompile@daffy.perf.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #1 Thu Apr 18 07:37:53 EDT 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fffc000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fffc000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 131068
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126972 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=4803 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 797.517 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1592.52 BogoMIPS
Memory: 513868k/524272k available (1119k kernel code, 10016k reserved, 775k data, 280k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0084, last bus=3
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Device 00:00 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 00:01 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 00:78 not found by BIOS
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS not found.
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
block: 992 slots per queue, batch=248
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SvrWks OSB4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 79
SvrWks OSB4: chipset revision 0
SvrWks OSB4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2c40-0x2c47, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2c48-0x2c4f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: Compaq CRN-8241B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 280k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
cpqarray: Device 0x1000 has been found at bus 0 dev 1 func 0
Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.5)
Found 1 controller(s)
cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (Integrated Array)
cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=35553120
cpqarray: Starting firmware's background processing
blk: queue c0352a40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Partition check:
ida/c0d0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 p11 >
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 280k freed
Adding Swap: 526296k swap-space (priority -1)
Adding Swap: 526296k swap-space (priority -2)
Adding Swap: 526312k swap-space (priority -3)
Adding Swap: 526296k swap-space (priority -4)
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ida0(72,3), internal journal
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ida0(72,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ida0(72,11), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ida0(72,10), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ida0(72,5), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ida0(72,6), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin and others
eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:02:A5:07:3D:0F, IRQ 11.
Board assembly 010101-034, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
eth1: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:50:8B:B4:8C:A5, IRQ 5.
Board assembly 726837-017, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
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The tape is plugged to internal SCSI Port J2 INT on the motherboard .

It's located in the Half height bays for tape backup .

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[Stuart Browne]

Righteo! Perfect! The exact details we needed!

Unfortunately, this means that the drive is plugged into the on-board RAID controller, which is using the 'cpqarray' driver. This driver does not support the use of a Tape drive on the controller.

So this leaves you with getting another SCSI controller for your tape.

Sorry.

[Stuart Browne]

Incidentally, you'll probably want to remove the:

alias scsi_hostadapter2 aic7xxx

line from your '/etc/modules.conf', as that controller doesn't exist in the system from what I can see.

[Badapple_1]

Ok I'll do that ..


Rebooted the system ,Dmesg :
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Linux version 2.4.18-3 (bhcompile@daffy.perf.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #1 Thu Apr 18 07:37:53 EDT 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ffc000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007ffc000 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 32764
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 28668 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=4803 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 797.517 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1592.52 BogoMIPS
Memory: 126056k/131056k available (1119k kernel code, 4612k reserved, 775k data, 280k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0084, last bus=3
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Device 00:00 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 00:01 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 00:78 not found by BIOS
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS not found.
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
block: 240 slots per queue, batch=60
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SvrWks OSB4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 79
SvrWks OSB4: chipset revision 0
SvrWks OSB4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2c40-0x2c47, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2c48-0x2c4f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: CD-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 280k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
cpqarray: Device 0x1000 has been found at bus 0 dev 1 func 0
Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.5)
Found 1 controller(s)
cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (Integrated Array)
cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=35553120
cpqarray: Starting firmware's background processing
blk: queue c0352a40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Partition check:
ida/c0d0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 p11 >
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Non Fatal error on ida/c0d0
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 280k freed
Adding Swap: 526296k swap-space (priority -1)
Adding Swap: 526296k swap-space (priority -2)
Adding Swap: 526312k swap-space (priority -3)
Adding Swap: 526296k swap-space (priority -4)
Non Fatal error on ida/c0d0
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ida0(72,3), internal journal
Non Fatal error on ida/c0d0
Non Fatal error on ida/c0d0
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ida0(72,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ida0(72,11), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ida0(72,10), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ida0(72,5), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ida0(72,6), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin and others
eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:02:A5:08:FB:6B, IRQ 11.
Board assembly 010101-034, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
eth1: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:50:8B:B8:94:66, IRQ 5.
Board assembly 726837-017, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).

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[Badapple_1]

Will this driver help me in any way
CCISS

ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/drivers/linux/released/cciss/cciss_history.htm

Kindly check

Thanx for Reply till now

[Stuart Browne]

Unfortunately, no.

The on-board "Intergrated SmartArray Controller" is of the SMART2 era, and isn't supported by the 'cciss' driver. The range of cards for that is as I mentioned before. Here's the list of supported cards in the driver documentation:

* SA 5300
* SA 5i
* SA 532
* SA 5312
* SA 641
* SA 642
* SA 6400
* SA 6400 U320 Expansion Module
* SA 6i

so the 5i/5xx/5xxx/6i/6xx/6xxx (I missed 6i ealier! my bad!) series.

The easiest thing to do is to just get a separate SCSI controller, and use that for your tape drive.

It should fit into one of the available PCI slots in the machine.

[Stuart Browne]

Hrm, I didn't mention it before. Was in the post-I-didn't-post.. sorry ;)

[Badapple_1]

Any way ..

Thanx for helping out ,Thanx a lot :)