hpasm can't see cciss drivers

[Ronnie_16]

I have the latest agents (7.3.0) installed on a custom 2.6 kernel.
The agents seem to do fine except for cmastor (cmanidad in particular) which reports following in the log:

neither SMART2 ARRAY nor CCISS drivers are loaded

Anyone know the reason for the agent not seeing I have cciss drivers compiled in kernel? Am I missing something in /proc? /dev? Or is the agent only working with cciss as a module?

Tia,
Ronnie

[Ronnie_16]

Edit: cmanidad should of course be cmaidad

[Stuart Browne]

2 things..

1) I've never used 'cciss' compiled directly into the kernel, I've always used it as a module, so am unsure about that side.

2) given that you've compiled the 'cciss' into the kernel, I'm assuming you didn't use the HP supplied source.

Try compiling it as a module first. If that doesn't fix it, try using the HP supplied dirver.

[Ronnie_16]

Stuart, thank you for the quick response!

I'd rather not compile cciss as a module unless I really have to. That means I have to change boot configurations and create an initrd...
If i knew for a fact that cciss needs to be compiled as a module for hpasm to work, then I guess I'd reconsider.

[Stuart Browne]

Yea, sorry for the half arsed answer ;) Didn't realize it was so empty as I typed it.. :)

[Gerd Pleyer]

Here the same - I use the cciss directly compiled into the kernel. If I use it as module my gentoo system doesn't start up.

Any solution for this?