Problems with NetRaid and Linux.

[Ville Leinonen_1]

Hi,

I have a old NetServer LH6000 with NetRaid controller. Id like to install Linux on that machine, but installer cannot find disks. I think reason is that Linux installer cannot recognize Raid controller. I have tried to install RedHat ES 4 and Debian 3.1R0a distributions. Any suggestion how i get installation recognize those Raid controller.

Best regards,

Ville Leinonen

[Steven E. Protter]

All servers of this era have a special cd. With this cd, you boot into a gui that lets you configure disk/raid prior to OS installation.

This CD is available for download.

Unfortuneately, without a more precise model number, I can not post you a link for this download.

I suggest you start here:

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/prodserv/servers.html

SEP

[Ville Leinonen_1]

Hi,

Model is: NetServer LH 6000r.

Br,

Ville

[Craig Gilmore]

Check:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?locale=en_US&pnameOID=62577&taskId=135&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=50440〈=en&cc=us

Regards,

Craig

[Ross Minkov]

Note that the distros you want to install are not supported on that old NetServer. If you can replace it with a ProLiant.

-Ross

[Colin Topliss · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The installer picks the wrong driver. It loads the megaraid driver by default, and that is no longer used for the NetRaid controller (it used to work on the older distros).

You need to ensure that the aacraid driver is installed. When I did my old netserver, I seem to recall an option on the text-based install that allowed you to select more drivers. Thats the point where you need to load the aacraid driver.

As you can see in the lsmod output below, the driver aacraid is in use for the NetRaid controller:

scsi_mod 103884 7 [st sr_mod sg ide-scsi aacraid aic7xxx sd_mod]

test1:/proc/scsi/aacraid # sginfo -l
/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/scd0 /dev/sr0 /dev/nst0 /dev/nst1
/dev/sg0 [scsi0 ch=0 id=0 lun=0]
/dev/sg1 [=/dev/nst0 scsi0 ch=0 id=1 lun=0]
/dev/sg2 [=/dev/nst1 scsi0 ch=0 id=2 lun=0]
/dev/sg3 [=/dev/sda scsi2 ch=0 id=0 lun=0]
/dev/sg4 [=/dev/sdb scsi2 ch=0 id=1 lun=0]
/dev/sg5 [=/dev/sdc scsi2 ch=0 id=2 lun=0]
/dev/sg6 [=/dev/scd0 scsi3 ch=0 id=0 lun=0]

test1:/proc/scsi/aacraid # ls
. .. 2
tux1:/proc/scsi/aacraid # cat 2
Adaptec Raid Controller 1.1.3 Dec 19 2003 16:23:53, scsi hba number 2


Regards

Col

[Ville Leinonen_1]

Hi all,

Thank you for your answers. I just installed FreeBSD for that, but i will try to install Linux for others 6000's server, now that i know what driver i must to use.

Br,

Ville

[Ville Leinonen_1]

I think i reopen the case if i still got some problems.