Hi Dragos, I have the AMI (now LSI) MegaRAID PCI controller (actually on motherboard) using the (CMD649) chipset. Here is information: lspci -vv produces (for the RAID portion only): 00:10.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc PCI0649 (rev 02) Subsystem: American Megatrends Inc.: Unknown device 0649 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- wrote:

what megaraid card do you have? I have a 2.2 box who can boot it like a charm (the driver is compiled in kernel, not as a module) it's a HP server, so the adapter is called netraid, but it is a truly megaraid card...

dragos

babu walad wrote:

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Folks,

I managed to track down a MegaRAID driver (object file) and I also found one as part of the standard 7.1 Suse release.

What I haven't quite figured out is how to tell the kernel about it. It does not seem to detect the megaraid card and load the drivers automatically.

I tried getting it to load with insmod and modprobe but I got errors indicating maybe I need to specify additional parameters. I have no idea what to give for addresses and such.

I tried modifying the modules.conf file and enable scsi-adaptor, since the megaraid appears as scsi, but that didn't work. I also tried to enable ide-scsi and still no success.

Any idea how to approach this?

Thanks!!

Babu

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Hi Martin, I suspect I may indeed need to do parameter passing but I do not see any notes that say what needs to be done. The stock megaraid driver and source is part of 7.1 distribution. Where would notes be? Last time I contacted Suse support they informed me that megaraid was unsupported... Babu --- Martin Webster wrote:

On Sunday 21 October 2001 10:36 pm, babu walad wrote:

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I have the AMI (now LSI) MegaRAID PCI controller (actually on motherboard) using the (CMD649) chipset. Here is information:

lspci -vv produces (for the RAID portion only):

00:10.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc PCI0649 (rev 02) Subsystem: American Megatrends Inc.: Unknown device 0649 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-

I have tried installing the Suse 7.1 issued megaraid.o driver, and another I got off the AMI/LSI people.

insmod megaraid produces:

/tmpdir/megaraid.o: init_module: Cannot allocate memory Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters

Perhaps you should have passed some parameters with insmod? A text file should have come with the megaraid driver; does this provide any clues?

M -- Martin Webster Registered Linux User #230322 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spider-monkey/

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