Greetings all, I've got an Dual Opteron SLES 8 SP3 installation to which I'm trying to add a tape library. The tape library (2 drive SDLT and one robot) is LVD VHDCI. I found the Adaptec AHA39160 which has 2 VHDCI but is listed as "problematic" in the SuSE HardWare Database. Adaptec makes an AHA29160-LP which has an external VHDCI connector, but it is not listed in the HWDB, however the AHA29160 is listed and supported, but it has different connectors, are those close enough to believe that the AHA29160-LP is also supported or would that be pushing my luck? What I'm looking for is a PCI/PCI-X SCSI card preferably with 2 external LVD VHDCI connectors, I have room for 2 cards if need be, that is fully supported. I also found an LSI Logic card which would meet my needs, but am either using the wrong vendor name or they are not listed in the HWDB. -Alain.
On Friday 04 February 2005 19:02, Black, Alain wrote:
I also found an LSI Logic card which would meet my needs, but am either using the wrong vendor name or they are not listed in the HWDB. The LSI Logic cards I am using with suse all work fine. They are probably listed under 'megaraid' or something similar.
-kees
"Black, Alain" <ablack@bloodsystems.org> writes:
Greetings all,
I've got an Dual Opteron SLES 8 SP3 installation to which I'm trying to add a tape library. The tape library (2 drive SDLT and one robot) is LVD VHDCI. I found the Adaptec AHA39160 which has 2 VHDCI but is listed as "problematic" in the SuSE HardWare Database.
Last time I tried the 39160, they worked fine on several Opteron system, go ahead.
Adaptec makes an AHA29160-LP which has an external VHDCI connector, but it is not listed in the HWDB, however the AHA29160 is listed and supported, but it has different connectors, are those close enough to believe that the AHA29160-LP is also supported or would that be pushing my luck?
What I'm looking for is a PCI/PCI-X SCSI card preferably with 2 external LVD VHDCI connectors, I have room for 2 cards if need be, that is fully supported.
I also found an LSI Logic card which would meet my needs, but am either using the wrong vendor name or they are not listed in the HWDB.
The hardware database is not as up to date as we like to see it:-( Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 06:56 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
The hardware database is not as up to date as we like to see it:-(
A suggestion: make a YaST module (or a separate GUI tool) that format hwinfo output and relevant suse/kernel/driver/Xorg/etc version information with a small input where the user can add information about wether he thinks it works or not. Have this tool propose to register user / machine(s) and send that information to SuSE and allow for SuSE to contact the user. And on the SuSE side: - use it to fill the hardware database with raw numbers of "unvalidated" work / don't work. Add "validated" status when SuSE knows for sure it works or doesn't work. - when too much "don't work" accumulate and SuSE and willing to do something about, contact the users with some more detailed test software or new RPMs (should be easy to install / remove to gain users not too technically inclined). Of course it might not make sense economically for SuSE to go after home PC harware issues, but server side that would be a great service to customers I think and may be a way to gain some new customers for SLES. Laurent
Of course it might not make sense economically for SuSE to go after home PC harware issues, but server side that would be a great service to customers I think and may be a way to gain some new customers for SLES.
The problem is that a device can appear to be working for simple stuff, but still be quite broken (fall over with any significant load or have other problems). That is actually not that uncommon. The only way to catch these is to run longer stress tests. That is what the SUSE Linux hardware certification does. Also it would still not help with the problem the original poster had - that devices are filled under different names in the hardware database. Unfortunately device vendors tend to be quite creative at giving even identical cards new names, or sometimes even changing the hardware silently without changing the name :/ -Andi
Black, Alain schrieb:
Adaptec makes an AHA29160-LP which has an external VHDCI connector, but it is not listed in the HWDB, however the AHA29160 is listed and supported, but it has different connectors, are those close enough to believe that the AHA29160-LP is also supported or would that be pushing my luck?
i have a AHA29160-LP here running properly in a Dual-PIII / SuSE 8.2. from my experience i can recommend it. Kai
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