[CentOS] HP NetServer LC2000r and LH6000r install woes

[Russ N3TIH]

i tried 4.2  on a  hp lh3000 , its appearently  a  RAID  issue ,   went back 
to   3.6 and  and running rock solid
Russ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Huff" <shuff at vecna.org>
To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:02 AM
Subject: [CentOS] HP NetServer LC2000r and LH6000r install woes


> 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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