Ken Schneider wrote:

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 18:09 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:

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mourik jan c heupink wrote:

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After enabling raid1 in the bios, creating an array, and creating a logical drive in the array (230 gig) suse installation does NOT see a harddisk. Bios messages during post indicate that all is fine: it sees the array, it sees one logical drive in the array, but in the suse installer partitioning fails, because there are no drives to install on.

That would suggest lack of the proper driver for the RAID controller.

What controller is it using (IDE, SCSI)? If it is the same as the controller in the ML330 G3 (IDE) you are out of luck.

The OP mentioned ICH6 ? Some SATA RAID controller. Anyway, HP seems to supply a binary only driver package. If it was me, I give that a go and see if I could somehow shoehorn it into my 9.3 or 10.0 system. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution. Let us analyse your spam- and virus-threat - up to 2 months for free.

Ken Schneider wrote:

The only drivers I see are for HP's "smart array" controllers which

http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/23523.html

are SCSI controllers and will not work with the SATA controller. Best bet is to open a case with HP support, they are quite helpful.

I agree - though in this case, I think it might be pointless. IMHO, actual HP support is poor when it comes to Linux - I've had a number of HP support persons on the phone only to hear them say "Oh Linux? No, we don't support that". They clearly state the boxes are certified for _specific_ versions of Linux only, and I suspect that's the key here. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution. Let us analyse your spam- and virus-threat - up to 2 months for free.

On Thursday 12 January 2006 2:17 pm, Jerry Feldman wrote:

Go to the HP DSPP site. http://www.hp.com/go/dspp, then click on Tux for Linux resources. BTW: Linux is a major project within HP. One of the issues when supporting Linux is that the Linux support generally comes from the Linux vendor, primarily SuSE and Red Hat. Here is another HP Linux site: http://www.hp.com/go/linux/ And, there is a hotline: 888-HP-LINUX -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

Jerry Feldman wrote:

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Here is another HP Linux site: http://www.hp.com/go/linux/ And, there is a hotline: 888-HP-LINUX

Doesn't look like one I can dial from here :-) Probably not. I can't talk for the HP support people in Europe, and my

On Thursday 12 January 2006 3:43 pm, Per Jessen wrote: personal perspective is from the partner organization not the support organization. But, you might be able to get some information from the DSPP program. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

On 1/12/06, Per Jessen wrote:

Jerry Feldman wrote:

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On Thursday 12 January 2006 2:02 pm, Per Jessen wrote:

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actual HP support is poor when it comes to Linux - I've had a number of HP support persons on the phone only to hear them say "Oh Linux? No, we don't support that". Go to the HP DSPP site. http://www.hp.com/go/dspp, then click on Tux for Linux resources. BTW: Linux is a major project within HP.

Maybe internally, but externally their support certainly leaves a lot to be desired.

try this: Direct number for hp linux support: 800-633-3600 option1/option2 then say "proliant running linux" (sorry about the double send Per ...)

dear list, just wanted to give you the ending of this story: there were two drivers available for download: mptlinux-3.02.56-4.sles9.i586.dd and adpahci.v1.19.V414A19.V041A7.sles9.i586.img. They both did NOT work. One made the server EXTREMELY slow, and with both I still had no harddisks to install to. Since this whole thing started taking too long, I decided to do software root raid via yast now. Created a raid1 in yast, containing both sata drives. That works nicely. Thanks for your input anyway! I have various IBM xSeries servers running here, and they were MUCH easier to install to than this Proliant DL320. Kind regards, Mourik Jan mourik jan heupink wrote:

Hello to all who have responded!

I'm surprised by so many reactions!

First of all I will try the "proliant support pack for suse" solution offered below. If that doesn't help, I will call HP, and post the result here.

Again: I really appreciate all the discussion that took place!

Kind regards!

Mourik Jan

Francisco Javier Lopez wrote:

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We use some DL servers (both sata and scsi) in our enterprise. If you need drivers you can load them from hp site. Look for "Proliant Suppor Pack for SuSE", who is a cd with all drivers for SuSE linux. Officialy only SLES versions are supported but you can install the sles-8 drivers over all 2.4 kernels (SuSE 8.x) and sles-9 drivers over 2.6 kernels (SuSE 9.x) without problems. Y have to create a driver's diskete using Proliant Support Pack with a utility who is in the same cd. Load the driver when boot.

Regards Francisco El Jueves, 12 de Enero de 2006 17:18, mourik jan c heupink escribió:

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dear list,

I am having a HARD time installing suse 9.3 on a brand new Proliant DL320 G3 with SATA RAID 1.

After enabling raid1 in the bios, creating an array, and creating a logical drive in the array (230 gig) suse installation does NOT see a harddisk. Bios messages during post indicate that all is fine: it sees the array, it sees one logical drive in the array, but in the suse installer partitioning fails, because there are no drives to install on.

The sata/raid adapter is an Intel ICH6R/ICH6RW, and I found out that this is so called 'fakeraid'. I had never heard of this. (until now I have only used IBM ServeRAID SCSI) Anyway, how to proceed? Is root raid1 possible on this hardware? Anyone doing it, here? (http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#intel-ich6)

I went to the hp website, there are driver downloads, but all for SuSE Enterprise Server. I DON'T have the enterprise server, but regular 9.3 or 10. Is there anyone here who knows how to get this going? Am I trying to do the impossible? The server IS certified for linux, I checked that, before I bought it...

Anyway, really all suggestions are welcome!

Thanks in advance!

Mourik Jan

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