[CentOS] HP NetServer LC2000r and LH6000r install woes

[Paul Schoonderwoerd]

Steve,

Check the releasenotes on redhat.com. The old Netraid controllers are declared 
obsolete in ES4. Not sure how to resolve this. I guess you will need to use 
the old driver at boottime. 

Paul

On Friday 20 January 2006 17:02, Steve Huff wrote:
> hello folks!
>
> i've got four HP NetServers, two LC2000r and two LH6000r.  the CentOS
> 4.2 ServerCD can't see hard drives on any of them.
>
> each machine has a HP NetRAID controller; the LC2000rs have a
> NetRAID-1Si and the LH6000rs have an Integrated NetRAID.  each
> controller has three 9GB drives, two mirrored and one hotspare.
>
> each machine boots ok (the LC2000rs need "linux noacpi" or they
> complain about being in a weird power management state and panic),
> each loads the megaraid driver, but none of them can see any volumes.
>
> fixes i have already tried:
>
> 1) on the LH6000rs i have disabled "Smart IRQ" reallocation; on the
> LC2000rs i have disabled "Reserve PCI Bus Numbers" as described in
> this document:
>
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HP-HOWTO/hp-hardware.html#AEN792
>
> these fixes have made the megaraid driver stop complaining about IRQ
> conflicts or routing errors.
>
> 2) i have tried switching each NetRAID controller from I20 to "Mass
> Storage" mode; no change.
>
> 3) i have tried manually adding the i2o_block driver; no change.
>
> has anyone encountered similar problems with this hardware?  better
> yet, has anyone resolved them?  any other ideas?
>
> do i need to do anything to the logical volumes on the NetRAIDs other
> than create and initialize them?
>
> i'm currently downloading the full CentOS install media, in case this
> is some sort of deficiency in the ServerCD.
>
> thanks,
> steve
>
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