On 12/18/2011 2:22 PM, Richard Karhuse wrote:
If you follow the cited bugzilla's, you'll see that you *must* upgrade your HP firmware too (for everything(!!) -- particularly RAID controllers and SAS expander, etc.) --> to the absolute latest release. [Note: the updates on the 9.30 ISO are *not* late enough, btw.] Then, you need the latest version of the kernel that has a work-around in the cciss / hpsa driver.
HTH
-rak-
Thanks. I have already started down the firmware path. This is irritating! 15 years of solid reliability out of Proliant products and then suddenly this! :( I'm starting to wonder if the Linux kernel is just trying to do too many things... geez... (Isn't that what Windows does?) Maybe there is a need for a server kernel which could be a simplified version of a desktop or full kernel? Then again, I have no insight into what led to this... perhaps it was introduced due to the server side features.
So, by "latest kernel", I suppose that would not be the latest CentOS 6.1 kernel? If not, does anyone know if it is in any kernel provided by upstream and if it will soon be available under CentOS? For instance 6.2 that seems to be just around the corner?
Upstream seemed to blame it on their upstream, or the kernel. The cases I found were closed in spite of no good resolution. There has to be a ton of Proliant stuff out there. Actually, HP seems to have a lot of holes in providing for RH6 and has only RH5 for many of these firmware updates. I did successfully run HP RH5 firmware updates on a RH6 box, but I'm not so happy about taking chances like that.
Or worse.... perhaps we are starting to see a degradation due to ownership by HP vs. the fine products that Compaq created? I certainly hope not!
Meanwhile, I guess I'll sit back and wait to see if what I have done is enough.