On Wednesday 12 May 2004 04:40 pm, Joseph Brockert wrote: | Are you suggesting that when the yast probe finds the the raid card | and and recommends loading the dpt_i2o driver that I say no and | continue on?, or is their a setting on the card itself that I need to | disable?....thanks joe | | On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 14:55, g.lams@itcilo.org wrote: | > I had the same kind of problem on an "old" integrated and I had to | > disable i2o on the raid adapter. I also had to pass 2 parameters at | > boot time but disabling i2o could be enough | > | > gael | > | > -----Joseph Brockert wrote: ----- | > | > >To: suse-linux-e@suse.com | > >From: Joseph Brockert | > >Date: 12/05/2004 09:06PM | > >Subject: [SLE] SuSE 9.1 installation on Adaptec Raid with dtp_i2o | > >driver | > > | > >I boot to SuSE install dvd and start a manual install. Yast finds | > > my adaptec(dtp) 2000 raid card and ask to load the dpt_i20 | > > drivers, I say | > >OK. Yast continues but says it can find any hard disks. I know | > > hards are | > >installed, because I have formated them up, install SuSE 9.0, then | > >reformated. This same process works OK with SuSE 9.0 installation. | > >I | > >have tried just installing to a single disk, or a raid setup, but | > >the | > >intallation never finds any disks. Can anyone give me an idea | > > where to | > >look next?.....joe Gael, I have a DPT PM2865U3, which is pretty much an Adaptec 21xxS RAID controller with an Adaptec-ified BIOS on one of my personal workstations. I also put several of these cards in clients' servers. The card works flawlessly on SuSE 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2. On 9.0, the driver got "double vision" and saw at least one hard disk twice. Only way to install 9.0 was to create a hardware RAID1 array (but when one of the drives died, SuSE freaked, so now I'm back to 8.2). I was unable to convince SuSE that they had a problem here. What parms did you pass to the driver to get it to work properly in 9.0? Thanks, Mark -- _____________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street, 5th Floor Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.RNoME.com

On Thursday 13 May 2004 02:25 am, g.lams@itcilo.org wrote: | "acpi=oldboot apic" | | > What parms did you pass to the driver to get it to work properly in | > 9.0? Didn't work... SuSE 9.0 installer still thinks I have four SCSI physical disks when I only have three. The first physical disk is rendered twice, once as /dev/sda and then again as /dev/sdb. So the real second disk is now /dev/sdc, and the real third physical disk is /dev/sdd. -- _____________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street, 5th Floor Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.RNoME.com

It's the setting on the card, in my case, I have to reboot and actually before the installation starts there was a few lines saying that i could use Ctrl-M to configure my raid. When I entered this configuration utility, in the property of the adapter (on my hp netserver it was in the "object" submenu) i just disabled i2o and put mass storage emulation It changed the kernel modules tried by yast and that makes the installation work I hope it help gael Joseph Brockert wrote on 12/05/2004 22.40.00:

Are you suggesting that when the yast probe finds the the raid card and and recommends loading the dpt_i2o driver that I say no and continue on?, or is their a setting on the card itself that I need to disable?....thanks joe

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 14:55, g.lams@itcilo.org wrote:

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I had the same kind of problem on an "old" integrated and I had to

disable

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i2o on the raid adapter. I also had to pass 2 parameters at boot time but disabling i2o could be enough

gael

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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com From: Joseph Brockert Date: 12/05/2004 09:06PM Subject: [SLE] SuSE 9.1 installation on Adaptec Raid with dtp_i2o driver

I boot to SuSE install dvd and start a manual install. Yast finds my adaptec(dtp) 2000 raid card and ask to load the dpt_i20 drivers, I say OK. Yast continues but says it can find any hard disks. I know hards are installed, because I have formated them up, install SuSE 9.0, then reformated. This same process works OK with SuSE 9.0 installation. I have tried just installing to a single disk, or a raid setup, but the intallation never finds any disks. Can anyone give me an idea where to look next?.....joe

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