Carl, thanks - I'll go through all those messages and see what I come up with - I'll post results to the list. Angus On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 23:14 -0500, Carl E. Hartung wrote:

site:lists.suse.com suse-linux-e adaptec scsi >=2005

Hey gang, OK, having spent a couple of hours on this, I've found a workaround. The Adaptec 39320A has HostRAID capabilities. I turned this off and then installed SuSE onto a software RAID/LVM with the two SCSI disks I have. It's unfortunate that I cannot get hardware raid to work, and I don't have the time to pursue this further. I should note, that I attempted installs of Libranet (based on Debian) and also Fedora Core 3 and had the same result. Linux is able to see the raid adapter, but not the hostraid part of it and therefore, no hardware raid. Hopefully this will be fixed up soon. I've submitted appropriate bug reports. Regards, Angus On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 23:39 -0500, Carl E. Hartung wrote:

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Carl,

thanks - I'll go through all those messages and see what I come up with - I'll post results to the list.

Angus,

I added ">=2005" because tons of stuff was coming up from 2003/2004 without it. This probably knocked out any relevant hits from the last part of 2004, so the search string needs refinement. Also, I don't want to leave you with the impression that this is a SuSE problem. My impression, after much googling and reading, is there have been some related issues being ironed out in kernel recently.

regards,

- - Carl

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On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 20:16, Philipp Thomas wrote:

Angus Beath [Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:31:59 +1100]:

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It's unfortunate that I cannot get hardware raid to work,

Complain to Adaptec who don't want to offer an open source driver or at least the specs to enable the community to come up with a driver.

Philipp

I don't know if this will help with SuSE 9.2. I was trying to load a Fedora Core 3 box at work that would not load the aacraid module for a 2120S. I flashed the card to the latest firmware version (7349) and it installed with no problems. The source code version of the aacraid driver is on the Adaptec support/download page. I am going to try this out today and see if I can get some version of the Storage Manager software working. This combination of software and hardware was at the request of my customer. I would have used software RAID and been done by now. ;-) Louis

In the last year and a half I have twice tried to get Adaptec's less-expesive zero slot/channel raid cards (e.g. 2015S) to work in my Tyan Opteron motherboards. First with SuSE SLES8, then with SLES 9. My server integrator worked with Adaptec and Tyan both times for a total of six weeks - but no joy. In both cases we have gone with Intel SRCU42L RAID cards and been quite happy. They are about twice as much as the zero-channel RAID cards ($450 US versus about $215 US) BUT ... they just work. I've had to hack together the RAID monitoring utility (icp_utils) but they seem to work reasonably. But the Intel card has more than paid for itself - even if I just value my time at $5 per hour :) Adaptec's HostRaid solution is an attempt to compete against inexpensive (no-processor) ATA RAID solutions without cannibalizing their full function RAID controllers. And they do not seem to want to support Linux with their less expensive adapters - either HostRaid or zero-channel RAID. HTH - Richard BTW: Yes, its a little ironic I'm using an Intel RAID adapter in AMD processor powered servers. Fergus Wilde wrote:

On Friday 25 February 2005 01:16, Philipp Thomas wrote:

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Angus Beath [Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:31:59 +1100]:

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It's unfortunate that I cannot get hardware raid to work,

Complain to Adaptec who don't want to offer an open source driver or at least the specs to enable the community to come up with a driver.

Philipp

Certainly take Philipp's point here, but since Adaptec won't cough up, *is* there a good U320 hardware raid card that works flawlessy with SuSE 9.2? I tried the hardware database but (as not infrequently with the hcd) didn't seem to find devices mentioned that I was able to actually source in the shops. Perhaps I am not searching it right ... Cheers Fergus

-- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB

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On Friday 25 February 2005 14:27, Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote:

In the last year and a half I have twice tried to get Adaptec's less-expesive zero slot/channel raid cards (e.g. 2015S) to work in my Tyan Opteron motherboards. First with SuSE SLES8, then with SLES 9. My server integrator worked with Adaptec and Tyan both times for a total of six weeks - but no joy.

Thanks Richard, that's very helpful! Cheers, Fergus.

In both cases we have gone with Intel SRCU42L RAID cards and been quite happy. They are about twice as much as the zero-channel RAID cards ($450 US versus about $215 US) BUT ... they just work. I've had to hack together the RAID monitoring utility (icp_utils) but they seem to work reasonably.

But the Intel card has more than paid for itself - even if I just value my time at $5 per hour :)

Adaptec's HostRaid solution is an attempt to compete against inexpensive (no-processor) ATA RAID solutions without cannibalizing their full function RAID controllers. And they do not seem to want to support Linux with their less expensive adapters - either HostRaid or zero-channel RAID.

HTH - Richard

BTW: Yes, its a little ironic I'm using an Intel RAID adapter in AMD processor powered servers.

Fergus Wilde wrote:

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On Friday 25 February 2005 01:16, Philipp Thomas wrote:

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Angus Beath [Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:31:59 +1100]:

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It's unfortunate that I cannot get hardware raid to work,

Complain to Adaptec who don't want to offer an open source driver or at least the specs to enable the community to come up with a driver.

Philipp

Certainly take Philipp's point here, but since Adaptec won't cough up, *is* there a good U320 hardware raid card that works flawlessy with SuSE 9.2? I tried the hardware database but (as not infrequently with the hcd) didn't seem to find devices mentioned that I was able to actually source in the shops. Perhaps I am not searching it right ... Cheers Fergus

-- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB

Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797

http://www.chethams.org.uk

-- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk

On Friday 25 Feb 2005 14:27 pm, Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote:

BTW: Yes, its a little ironic I'm using an Intel RAID adapter in AMD processor powered servers.

In a similar situation at university[1] we had some stickers made up which may be appropriate for you, too. In the style of the official Intel stickers, they said: "Intel Inside. But not in charge." M [1] I think it was Intel graphics processors being driven by Motorola chips inside NCD X terminals hanging off a Sun server... -- "It's the small gaps between the rain that count, and learning how to live amongst them." -- Jeff Noon