Install HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 in CentOS4.5

[Stanley Chow]

Dear All,

I would like to get help to install HP Ultrium 960 in CentOS4.5, I have done the following, please help to check if anything missing :

1. Plugged the HP StorageWorks Ultrium960 to my HP DL380G4 server with scsi cable, at startup, the smary array found the tape.
2. After login the CentOS4.5, "dmesg|grep scsi" show no tape attached and "lsmod|grep st" show nothing.
3. Then, I download from HP website the package "cpq_cciss-2.6.18-10.rhel4.i686.rpm", at installation, it should wrong distribution, nothing update to linux boot loader.

I want to know if the above procedure missed anything, or any other method I could follow.

thank you for your help.


Regards,

Stanley

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi Stanley,

Connecting any tape drive to a SmartArray card isn't recommended.

Get hold of a Ultra320 SCSI card and attach the tape drive to that instead. You should then see the relevant st device.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Rob

[Joshua Small_2]

Although anything that works under RedHat should work under CentOS, many of the HP driver sets read the /etc/redhat-release file to ensure a supported OS is installed, and just quit if not.

I would suggest copying this file off a running RedHat server while you install the driver you mention in step three.