Hi,
Up until now, I've only installed Linux either on "desktop" hardware, meaning one of the desktop PCs in the LAN acted as a server machine for the network, or I rented some dedicated server somewhere in a datacenter.
Last week I bought some server hardware, a used HP Proliant ML150. It's the first time I am dealing with this sort of hardware. The hardware was sold "as is", without any warranty.
When I open the front cache, there are six small "drawers", and the bottom two of them each contain a 72 GB hard disk.
I inserted a CentOS 5.4 install CD (1 of 6), and the installer (linux text) booted correctly. But when it comes to partitioning, it "sees" no disk.
Unlike the usual desktop hardware, there seems to be a myriad of configuration options, and I'm a bit lost here. So first things first. How do I configure this machine so the CentOS installer can actually recognize my two inserted hard disks as such : say, sda and sdb or similarly ?
Any suggestions ?
Niki Kovacs
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thus Niki Kovacs spake:
Hi,
Up until now, I've only installed Linux either on "desktop" hardware, meaning one of the desktop PCs in the LAN acted as a server machine for the network, or I rented some dedicated server somewhere in a datacenter.
Last week I bought some server hardware, a used HP Proliant ML150. It's the first time I am dealing with this sort of hardware. The hardware was sold "as is", without any warranty.
When I open the front cache, there are six small "drawers", and the bottom two of them each contain a 72 GB hard disk.
I inserted a CentOS 5.4 install CD (1 of 6), and the installer (linux text) booted correctly. But when it comes to partitioning, it "sees" no disk.
You most probably need a driver disk; searching for the model and 'RHEL driver' tells me that you need a "Driver Diskette for HP ProLiant Smart Array Controller", which you can get at hp.com.
You then need to burn it onto CD or copy it to an USB stick (don't know that piece of driver), so you can load this driver when booting CentOS. You'll need to boot Linux with the 'dd' option ('dd' stands for 'driver disk') when you see grub.
Unlike the usual desktop hardware, there seems to be a myriad of configuration options, and I'm a bit lost here. So first things first. How do I configure this machine so the CentOS installer can actually recognize my two inserted hard disks as such : say, sda and sdb or similarly ?
Any suggestions ?
Niki Kovacs
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thus Niki Kovacs spake:
Hi,
Up until now, I've only installed Linux either on "desktop" hardware, meaning one of the desktop PCs in the LAN acted as a server machine for the network, or I rented some dedicated server somewhere in a datacenter.
Last week I bought some server hardware, a used HP Proliant ML150. It's the first time I am dealing with this sort of hardware. The hardware was sold "as is", without any warranty.
When I open the front cache, there are six small "drawers", and the bottom two of them each contain a 72 GB hard disk.
I inserted a CentOS 5.4 install CD (1 of 6), and the installer (linux text) booted correctly. But when it comes to partitioning, it "sees" no disk.
You most probably need a driver disk; searching for the model and 'RHEL driver' tells me that you need a "Driver Diskette for HP ProLiant Smart Array Controller", which you can get at hp.com.
Rather, you must first create an array of the disks included (if it's a brand new server).
Cheers, Rainer
On 02/17/2010 03:38 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote:
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Hi,
Up until now, I've only installed Linux either on "desktop" hardware, meaning one of the desktop PCs in the LAN acted as a server machine for the network, or I rented some dedicated server somewhere in a datacenter.
Last week I bought some server hardware, a used HP Proliant ML150. It's the first time I am dealing with this sort of hardware. The hardware was sold "as is", without any warranty.
When I open the front cache, there are six small "drawers", and the bottom two of them each contain a 72 GB hard disk.
I inserted a CentOS 5.4 install CD (1 of 6), and the installer (linux text) booted correctly. But when it comes to partitioning, it "sees" no disk.
You most probably need a driver disk; searching for the model and 'RHEL driver' tells me that you need a "Driver Diskette for HP ProLiant Smart Array Controller", which you can get at hp.com.
Rather, you must first create an array of the disks included (if it's a brand new server).
Cheers, Rainer _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hello there,
I don't know about ML's but with DL series CentOS don't have any problems at all and with seeing disks in particular. So I presume that Rainer is absolutely right. You have to build an array first. Check this link http://docs.hp.com/en/9320/acu.pdf
On 02/17/2010 03:38 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote:
Hello there,
I don't know about ML's but with DL series CentOS don't have any problems at all and with seeing disks in particular. So I presume that Rainer is absolutely right. You have to build an array first. Check this link http://docs.hp.com/en/9320/acu.pdf
BTW: does 5.4 work on the latest G6 hardware? And does 5.4 detect those 10G NIC (NC532i is their name, IIRC)?
Regards, Rainer
2010/2/17 Rainer Duffner rainer@ultra-secure.de:
On 02/17/2010 03:38 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote:
Hello there,
I don't know about ML's but with DL series CentOS don't have any problems at all and with seeing disks in particular. So I presume that Rainer is absolutely right. You have to build an array first. Check this link http://docs.hp.com/en/9320/acu.pdf
BTW: does 5.4 work on the latest G6 hardware? And does 5.4 detect those 10G NIC (NC532i is their name, IIRC)?
Well:
Minimum Supported Red Hat Updates . Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 . Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7
see at:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/ml150g6-drivers-cert.html
It might require some driver disks, that are available at same place..
-- Eero
In article 385fe02c1002170630t7f072781j3c76e37e20944942@mail.gmail.com, Eero Volotinen eero.volotinen@iki.fi wrote:
2010/2/17 Rainer Duffner rainer@ultra-secure.de:
On 02/17/2010 03:38 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote:
Hello there,
I don't know about ML's but with DL series CentOS don't have any problems at all and with seeing disks in particular. So I presume that Rainer is absolutely right. You have to build an array first. Check this link http://docs.hp.com/en/9320/acu.pdf
BTW: does 5.4 work on the latest G6 hardware? And does 5.4 detect those 10G NIC (NC532i is their name, IIRC)?
Well:
Minimum Supported Red Hat Updates . Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 . Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7
see at:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/ml150g6-drivers-cert.html
It might require some driver disks, that are available at same place..
I've installed CentOS 4.7 Server CD on a DL360G6 with no problems, and without needing any driver disks.
Tony
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 15:20 +0100, Rainer Duffner wrote:
On 02/17/2010 03:38 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote:
Hello there,
I don't know about ML's but with DL series CentOS don't have any problems at all and with seeing disks in particular. So I presume that Rainer is absolutely right. You have to build an array first. Check this link http://docs.hp.com/en/9320/acu.pdf
BTW: does 5.4 work on the latest G6 hardware?
It does on my DL360 and BL460's
Nickolay Bunev a écrit :
I don't know about ML's but with DL series CentOS don't have any problems at all and with seeing disks in particular. So I presume that Rainer is absolutely right. You have to build an array first. Check this link http://docs.hp.com/en/9320/acu.pdf
This document relates to a working server with a working Windows 2003 Server installation (as the array utility is for that platform).
The Proliant Server I have here is shipped "as is", with a handful of disks. And I have no idea where to start for installing Linux.
2010/2/17 Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net:
Nickolay Bunev a écrit :
I don't know about ML's but with DL series CentOS don't have any problems at all and with seeing disks in particular. So I presume that Rainer is absolutely right. You have to build an array first. Check this link http://docs.hp.com/en/9320/acu.pdf
This document relates to a working server with a working Windows 2003 Server installation (as the array utility is for that platform).
The Proliant Server I have here is shipped "as is", with a handful of disks. And I have no idea where to start for installing Linux.
Boot the management utility cd or embedded bios and create raid arrays, then try to boot with latest centos 5.4 disk.
If disks are still unavailable, then just download the driver diskettes and use them to load correct disk driver..
-- Eero
Niki Kovacs wrote:
Nickolay Bunev a écrit :
I don't know about ML's but with DL series CentOS don't have any problems at all and with seeing disks in particular. So I presume that Rainer is absolutely right. You have to build an array first. Check this link http://docs.hp.com/en/9320/acu.pdf
This document relates to a working server with a working Windows 2003 Server installation (as the array utility is for that platform).
The Proliant Server I have here is shipped "as is", with a handful of disks. And I have no idea where to start for installing Linux.
It depends on the raid controller, but some have the basic utilities in ROM that you access by hitting a specified key at boot-up. Are there any messages about the controller as you boot?
Niki Kovacs wrote:
Nickolay Bunev a écrit :
I don't know about ML's but with DL series CentOS don't have any problems at all and with seeing disks in particular. So I presume that Rainer is absolutely right. You have to build an array first. Check this link http://docs.hp.com/en/9320/acu.pdf
This document relates to a working server with a working Windows 2003 Server installation (as the array utility is for that platform).
The Proliant Server I have here is shipped "as is", with a handful of disks. And I have no idea where to start for installing Linux.
It depends on the raid controller, but some have the basic utilities in ROM that you access by hitting a specified key at boot-up. Are there any messages about the controller as you boot?
Um, dumb question: do you want a raid there? I mean, you did mention /dev/sda and /dev/sdb... if that's all you want, have you just tried doing an install? I do that a fair bit on (mostly Dell) servers, but I do remember needing a Megaraid driver about 3 or so years ago.
mark
On 2/17/2010 9:02 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I don't know about ML's but with DL series CentOS don't have any problems at all and with seeing disks in particular. So I presume that Rainer is absolutely right. You have to build an array first. Check this link http://docs.hp.com/en/9320/acu.pdf
This document relates to a working server with a working Windows 2003 Server installation (as the array utility is for that platform).
The Proliant Server I have here is shipped "as is", with a handful of disks. And I have no idea where to start for installing Linux.
It depends on the raid controller, but some have the basic utilities in ROM that you access by hitting a specified key at boot-up. Are there any messages about the controller as you boot?
Um, dumb question: do you want a raid there? I mean, you did mention /dev/sda and /dev/sdb... if that's all you want, have you just tried doing an install? I do that a fair bit on (mostly Dell) servers, but I do remember needing a Megaraid driver about 3 or so years ago.
Some controllers don't show drives at all until you create and initialize volumes. These can be a single drive if you want, but the OS won't see anything until after this step.
On 02/17/2010 04:35 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Nickolay Bunev a écrit :
I don't know about ML's but with DL series CentOS don't have any problems at all and with seeing disks in particular. So I presume that Rainer is absolutely right. You have to build an array first. Check this link http://docs.hp.com/en/9320/acu.pdf
This document relates to a working server with a working Windows 2003 Server installation (as the array utility is for that platform).
The Proliant Server I have here is shipped "as is", with a handful of disks. And I have no idea where to start for installing Linux.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
My mistake. I thought that the document has information about configuring the array itself in the beginning. Nevertheless it's not only about Windows, it's about hpacucli which is very useful tool. As Jim said are there any messages when you turn on the server. Check every option in BIOS which mentions RAID, arrays or SATA HP have very good documentation - search about: HP ProLiant ML150 Series Server User Guide HP ProLiant ML150 Maintenance and Service Guide Configuring Arrays on HP Smart Array Controllers Reference Guide
Nickolay Bunev wrote:
I don't know about ML's but with DL series CentOS don't have any problems at all and with seeing disks in particular.
well, that really depends on what specific server it is, more importantly, which specific SmartArray card or embedded RAID controller it has.
the only difference between ML and DL is tower vs rack chassis, each series has a wide range of models, many of which are identical except form factor..
there's much more difference between, say, a DL160 and a DL585 and even between a DL380 g2, and a DL380 g6 (or whatever they are up to now)
On 02/17/2010 08:37 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
Nickolay Bunev wrote:
I don't know about ML's but with DL series CentOS don't have any problems at all and with seeing disks in particular.
well, that really depends on what specific server it is, more importantly, which specific SmartArray card or embedded RAID controller it has.
Of course, you're right :)
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From: Nickolay Bunev just4nick@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Wed, February 17, 2010 10:45:52 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] HP Proliant ML150 : how do I access disks ?
Hello there,
I don't know about ML's but with DL series CentOS don't have any problems at all and with seeing disks in particular. So I presume that Rainer is absolutely right. You have to build an array first.
ML and DL are the same beasts, the DLs are the rack-mount ones, the DLs are the tower ones
And yes, first build the array from within the smatarray utility, then you can install centos. I've installed centos, rhel and fedora on 100s of MLs and DLs without any problems
Fer
Fernando Gleiser a écrit :
And yes, first build the array from within the smatarray utility, then you can install centos. I've installed centos, rhel and fedora on 100s of MLs and DLs without any problems
I'm sorry but I can't seem to find that "Smart Array" utility. The machine I have was shipped "as is", with some loose disks, no apparent system on it, and it came without any CD or handbook. And the HP site isn't exactly helpful for that. Officially this hardware supports RHEL3 and RHEL4, and that's it. Looks like there's no way to install CentOS5 on it (correct me if I'm wrong).
Plus, I admit I'm lost in the sheer myriad of options in the various boot configuration tools (bios, scsi configurator). So far I haven't managed to have any disk recognized, and what puzzles me is that there isn't the slightest mention of a disk in the bios.
Niki
Am 17.02.2010 um 23:26 schrieb Niki Kovacs:
Fernando Gleiser a écrit :
And yes, first build the array from within the smatarray utility, then you can install centos. I've installed centos, rhel and fedora on 100s of MLs and DLs without any problems
I'm sorry but I can't seem to find that "Smart Array" utility. The machine I have was shipped "as is", with some loose disks, no apparent system on it, and it came without any CD or handbook. And the HP site isn't exactly helpful for that. Officially this hardware supports RHEL3 and RHEL4, and that's it. Looks like there's no way to install CentOS5 on it (correct me if I'm wrong).
Plus, I admit I'm lost in the sheer myriad of options in the various boot configuration tools (bios, scsi configurator). So far I haven't managed to have any disk recognized, and what puzzles me is that there isn't the slightest mention of a disk in the bios.
Niki
That's because it's probably handled by the controller.
Can you make a video of it booting and upload it to youtube? Then, we can look at it and tell you the timecode where you have to press what key.
cheers, Rainer
Go to the HP.com website and download the SmartStart CD for your system. This has everything you need to configure the raid. The raid on these machines is a 'hardware' raid running through a proprietary raid card. It is 'extremely' robust. However, you must use the HP SmartStart disk (or perhaps there is something else from hp/compaq?) to configure your raid. The raid card in that machine most likely has a battery on it to allow protected write caching. Very speedy. The battery is used in case of power outage... the data still gets written.
As for the OS selection, don't worry about it, just create the raid and CentOS will find it and install.
John Hinton
On 2/17/2010 5:50 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote:
Am 17.02.2010 um 23:26 schrieb Niki Kovacs:
Fernando Gleiser a écrit :
And yes, first build the array from within the smatarray utility, then you can install centos. I've installed centos, rhel and fedora on 100s of MLs and DLs without any problems
I'm sorry but I can't seem to find that "Smart Array" utility. The machine I have was shipped "as is", with some loose disks, no apparent system on it, and it came without any CD or handbook. And the HP site isn't exactly helpful for that. Officially this hardware supports RHEL3 and RHEL4, and that's it. Looks like there's no way to install CentOS5 on it (correct me if I'm wrong).
Plus, I admit I'm lost in the sheer myriad of options in the various boot configuration tools (bios, scsi configurator). So far I haven't managed to have any disk recognized, and what puzzles me is that there isn't the slightest mention of a disk in the bios.
Niki
That's because it's probably handled by the controller.
Can you make a video of it booting and upload it to youtube? Then, we can look at it and tell you the timecode where you have to press what key.
cheers, Rainer _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
From: John Hinton webmaster@ew3d.com
Go to the HP.com website and download the SmartStart CD for your system. This has everything you need to configure the raid. The raid on these machines is a 'hardware' raid running through a proprietary raid card. It is 'extremely' robust. However, you must use the HP SmartStart disk (or perhaps there is something else from hp/compaq?) to configure your raid. The raid card in that machine most likely has a battery on it to allow protected write caching. Very speedy. The battery is used in case of power outage... the data still gets written.
It is a model 1xx Proliant... so no SmartStart or Firmware Maintenance CD...
JD
On 2/18/2010 10:59 AM, John Doe wrote:
From: John Hintonwebmaster@ew3d.com
Go to the HP.com website and download the SmartStart CD for your system. This has everything you need to configure the raid. The raid on these machines is a 'hardware' raid running through a proprietary raid card. It is 'extremely' robust. However, you must use the HP SmartStart disk (or perhaps there is something else from hp/compaq?) to configure your raid. The raid card in that machine most likely has a battery on it to allow protected write caching. Very speedy. The battery is used in case of power outage... the data still gets written.
It is a model 1xx Proliant... so no SmartStart or Firmware Maintenance CD...
JD
OH... Duh... I'm running about 20 HP servers, but none have ever been below a 300 series. Sorry about the bad info.
John Hinton
On 2/18/2010 9:59 AM, John Doe wrote:
From: John Hintonwebmaster@ew3d.com
Go to the HP.com website and download the SmartStart CD for your system. This has everything you need to configure the raid. The raid on these machines is a 'hardware' raid running through a proprietary raid card. It is 'extremely' robust. However, you must use the HP SmartStart disk (or perhaps there is something else from hp/compaq?) to configure your raid. The raid card in that machine most likely has a battery on it to allow protected write caching. Very speedy. The battery is used in case of power outage... the data still gets written.
It is a model 1xx Proliant... so no SmartStart or Firmware Maintenance CD...
With Adaptec controllers you usually hit control-A when it tells you during the boot process. If you have more than one the timing can be a little tricky but there is a several-second window after each prompt displays. If it is the same aacraid that IBM uses in some models it is a good hardware raid controller and worth the trouble to figure out if you are going to add multiple drives in a raid configuration. On the other hand, with a single drive you might as well use the onboard scsi.
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net wrote:
boot configuration tools (bios, scsi configurator). So far I haven't
SCSI -> Disk
Go to www.hp.com, , click on Support & Drivers, on Step 2, for product type ML 150, click GO. Select the correct generation, i.e. G5 or G6 etc. (it should be printed in the front), select Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server (x86 or x86-64). Scroll down until you get to the Driver - Storage Controller section. Download HP ProLiant Smart Array Controller... And so on.
When the server boots up, you will be presented with various options. Anything that mentions disk is your target. You will have to create at least one volume from a single disk, probably it's best to do RAID1 using both disks but all of that depends on what you want to do.
Hakan Koseoglu a écrit :
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net wrote:
boot configuration tools (bios, scsi configurator). So far I haven't
SCSI -> Disk
Go to www.hp.com, , click on Support & Drivers, on Step 2, for product type ML 150, click GO. Select the correct generation, i.e. G5 or G6 etc. (it should be printed in the front), select Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server (x86 or x86-64). Scroll down until you get to the Driver - Storage Controller section. Download HP ProLiant Smart Array Controller... And so on.
I already followed these steps. Well, almost. My server is a ML150 G2 model, and when I select it, I get support for :
Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for 64-bit Extended Systems Novell NetWare 6.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (AMD64/EM64T) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (x86) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (AMD64/EM64T) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (AMD64/EM64T) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (AMD64/EM64T) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (x86)
No RHEL5 here. So I give RHEL4 (AMD64) a try, but the only thing I get on the corresponding download page is this:
- HP IP Console Switch Firmware Update for Linux
And that's it. There's no other link.
Niki
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net wrote:
Niki Kovacs a écrit :
OK, at least I found an answer to this particular problem. I tried the US site, which yields many more answers. Unfortunately, no "smart array controller".
03:01.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 01) 03:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7901 U320 (rev 10)
You have an Adaptec card. That should work w/o a problem, that card has been supported by the upstream since release 3. During the boot-up sequence when it mentions Adaptec, hit the button mentioned on screen.
Make sure that the module is loaded during the installation, it should have already been. More likely as mentioned before, since you're not familiar with SCSI volumes, you haven't managed to configure the arrays correctly.
In all of this thread I am not sure if it's been explained to you before so let me go on a bit, you might now about this already, if so apologies, just skip to the next message :)
On most SCSI/SAS enabled servers, the disks are not shown to the hosts directly. Since these are usually used as servers, they are grouped for redundancy purposes. As a result until the disks are bundled into volumes or individually assigned to such entitites, they will not be visible to the OS. Some disks might be marked as spare.
Since you got this server from an other source, most likely he had wiped out all of the data from it and removed the RAID configuration.
You must go into the Adaptec configuration ans see how the disks are bundled up. Most likely they aren't assigned to any volumes. If you are not seeing any disks in this menu you must check the disk cabling within the box but do not mess that before you check the configuration on Adaptec's BIOS.
Hi Niki,
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net wrote:
Niki Kovacs a écrit : OK, at least I found an answer to this particular problem. I tried the US site, which yields many more answers. Unfortunately, no "smart array controller".
One last thing for this morning: Go to http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/scsi/#u320 , select the link for the card version you have and have good read of the installation guide where they talk about how to configure the device.
From: Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net
Hakan Koseoglu a écrit :
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
boot configuration tools (bios, scsi configurator). So far I haven't
SCSI -> Disk
Go to www.hp.com, , click on Support & Drivers, on Step 2, for product type ML 150, click GO. Select the correct generation, i.e. G5 or G6 etc. (it should be printed in the front), select Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server (x86 or x86-64). Scroll down until you get to the Driver - Storage Controller section. Download HP ProLiant Smart Array Controller... And so on.
I already followed these steps. Well, almost. My server is a ML150 G2 model, and when I select it, I get support for :
Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for 64-bit Extended Systems Novell NetWare 6.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (AMD64/EM64T) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (x86) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (AMD64/EM64T) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (AMD64/EM64T) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (AMD64/EM64T) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (x86)
No RHEL5 here. So I give RHEL4 (AMD64) a try, but the only thing I get on the corresponding download page is this:
- HP IP Console Switch Firmware Update for Linux
And that's it. There's no other link.
Maybe try this... http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lan...
JD
----- Original Message ----
From: Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Wed, February 17, 2010 7:26:03 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] HP Proliant ML150 : how do I access disks ?
Fernando Gleiser a écrit :
And yes, first build the array from within the smatarray utility, then you can
install centos.
I've installed centos, rhel and fedora on 100s of MLs and DLs without any
problems
I'm sorry but I can't seem to find that "Smart Array" utility. The machine I have was shipped "as is", with some loose disks, no apparent system on it, and it came without any CD or handbook. And the HP site isn't exactly helpful for that. Officially this hardware supports RHEL3 and RHEL4, and that's it. Looks like there's no way to install CentOS5 on it (correct me if I'm wrong).
Plus, I admit I'm lost in the sheer myriad of options in the various boot configuration tools (bios, scsi configurator). So far I haven't managed to have any disk recognized, and what puzzles me is that there isn't the slightest mention of a disk in the bios.
google for "ml150 rhel5 site:hp.com" yields this results:
http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627...
http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627...
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&a...
the last ones have drivers and such for download
hope that helps
Fer
Niki _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 02/17/2010 11:26 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: ...
Plus, I admit I'm lost in the sheer myriad of options in the various boot configuration tools (bios, scsi configurator).
I would start by opening the box and see what's inside.
What are the disks connected to?
To the motherboard? To a controller in a PCI or whatever slot?
Usually, on the cover you remove to get access to the inside, there's a drawing of the motherboard with a list of connections.
Boot a live CD/USB and do an lspci to list controllers.
On my old ML370 G3 I could connect the disks either to a smart array controller in a PCI slot or the SCSI controllers on the motherboard.
Mogens
I would like to ask you something for helphow can i give access to all the website in my centos 5.4 server,I can't access some website and there are not a pornographicweb. so i would like to know again how can I giveaccess to downloads i can't download through the server Please can you tell me what to do?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:07:57 +0100 From: mk@crc.dk To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] HP Proliant ML150 : how do I access disks ?
On 02/17/2010 11:26 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: ...
Plus, I admit I'm lost in the sheer myriad of options in the various boot configuration tools (bios, scsi configurator).
I would start by opening the box and see what's inside.
What are the disks connected to?
To the motherboard? To a controller in a PCI or whatever slot?
Usually, on the cover you remove to get access to the inside, there's a drawing of the motherboard with a list of connections.
Boot a live CD/USB and do an lspci to list controllers.
On my old ML370 G3 I could connect the disks either to a smart array controller in a PCI slot or the SCSI controllers on the motherboard.
Mogens
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Mogens Kjaer a écrit :
Boot a live CD/USB and do an lspci to list controllers.
I booted the CentOS5 install CD 1 in rescue mode. Here's what lspci gives:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation E7320 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation E7525/E7520/E7320 PCI Express Port A (rev 0c) 00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation E7525/E7520/E7320 PCI Express Port A1 (rev 0c) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6300ESB 64-bit PCI-X Bridge (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB Universal Host Controller (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB Universal Host Controller (rev 02) 00:1d.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (rev 02) 00:1d.5 PIC: Intel Corporation 6300ESB I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 0a) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 6300ESB LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 6300ESB PATA Storage Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6300ESB SMBus Controller (rev 02) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11) 03:01.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 01) 03:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7901 U320 (rev 10) 04:04.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
On 02/18/2010 08:21 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: ...
03:01.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 01) 03:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7901 U320 (rev 10)
You should still try to open the box and check the cables.
It might be easier to configure the system if you attach the disks to the SCSI controller instead of the RAID controller - if you don't want to run RAID.
Mogens
Mogens Kjaer a écrit :
You should still try to open the box and check the cables.
It might be easier to configure the system if you attach the disks to the SCSI controller instead of the RAID controller - if you don't want to run RAID.
I followed your advice (don't get me wrong: I followed anybody's advice here), opened the box ("What does he mean by attaching the disks to the SCSI controller instead of the RAID controller?"), duly noted the codes on the cards, googled a bit more, found out that one of my cards is an SCSI controller, the other one a RAID controller, decided to do exactly that, switch the cable, reboot, and...
... yesssss!
Mogens, you're a star! I see my disks now! It works! Thanks very much!
(OK, now I can finally go to some well-deserved sleep)
Thanks very much to all the folks who helped me out on this!
Cheers,
Niki
Rainer Duffner wrote on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:38:04 +0100:
Rather, you must first create an array of the disks included (if it's a brand new server).
Indeed. To be done in the main BIOS or the card's BIOS if there is an extra RAID controller card inserted. There should be no need to get extra drivers.
Kai
There should be a message from the bios about "configure the disk controller". It's usually F8 to get into it. Once in, you will need to create virtual/logical drives. Depending on the model you may not be able to do anything other than a RAID array. You may be able to create single disk 'arrays' if you really want to see the individual drives.
Once you have the drives created, the installer should see them. On DL series Proliants they are /dev/cciss/c0d0 (for the first array). You will want to grab the appropriate HP agents from the web site. hpacucli is very useful as it allows you to access the drives (and any new ones you get) from the command line of the OS.
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
Up until now, I've only installed Linux either on "desktop" hardware, meaning one of the desktop PCs in the LAN acted as a server machine for the network, or I rented some dedicated server somewhere in a datacenter.
Last week I bought some server hardware, a used HP Proliant ML150. It's the first time I am dealing with this sort of hardware. The hardware was sold "as is", without any warranty.
When I open the front cache, there are six small "drawers", and the bottom two of them each contain a 72 GB hard disk.
I inserted a CentOS 5.4 install CD (1 of 6), and the installer (linux text) booted correctly. But when it comes to partitioning, it "sees" no disk.
Unlike the usual desktop hardware, there seems to be a myriad of configuration options, and I'm a bit lost here. So first things first. How do I configure this machine so the CentOS installer can actually recognize my two inserted hard disks as such : say, sda and sdb or similarly ?
Any suggestions ?
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Last week I bought some server hardware, a used HP Proliant ML150.
That server comes with an onboard sata raid controller that needs a dd that HP only supports with an rhel kernel <= 5.3.
If you have a Smart Array controller the driver is built in.
If you don't, forget about the sata raid, setup the controller as non raid in the bios, and use md.
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