I have a new (used)Dell Poweredge 1550 server with 2 scsi drives (dual 1ghz w/ 2048MB) that I'm attempting to install CentOs 4 onto and am having problems getting the darn thing to recognize the hard drives. (it's worth noting that it's running RAID 0 and the RAID bios recognizes both drives as being in "optimal" state). I start the installation process and all is going well until it autoprobes. All other hardware is found except for the hard drives. The install subsequently fails because there the drives can't be found.
I have been googling my brain out over the last week and this seems to be an issue with installing linux on this particular server model. (surrounding the megaraid driver and have tried many of the things out there to no avail.
To see what I have been trying checkout this mailing list entry: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-August/010021.html
Any advice that anyone can give is appreciated!
PJ
Hi,
I went through similar issue two days ago. Upstream provider dropped support for the card in my box, megaraid. So the link you have below will be helpful. I booted w/ a supported spare scsi card then built the new driver and edit modprobe.conf and did mkinitrd, updated grub and all went well. Another great resource is the Dell Linux on PE list
http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
Good luck-
On 11/10/06, Phillip Crump pjcrump@bitstream.net wrote:
I have a new (used)Dell Poweredge 1550 server with 2 scsi drives (dual 1ghz w/ 2048MB) that I'm attempting to install CentOs 4 onto and am having problems getting the darn thing to recognize the hard drives. (it's worth noting that it's running RAID 0 and the RAID bios recognizes both drives as being in "optimal" state). I start the installation process and all is going well until it autoprobes. All other hardware is found except for the hard drives. The install subsequently fails because there the drives can't be found.
I have been googling my brain out over the last week and this seems to be an issue with installing linux on this particular server model. (surrounding the megaraid driver and have tried many of the things out there to no avail.
To see what I have been trying checkout this mailing list entry: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-August/010021.html
Any advice that anyone can give is appreciated!
PJ
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So are you saying that I can purchase a new SCSI card and all of these problems will go away? If so, what specific card do you recommend? I gotta get this thing working..
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of Rick Philbrick Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 2:28 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Drives Not Recognized on Dell Poweredge 1550 CentOs4install
Hi,
I went through similar issue two days ago. Upstream provider dropped support for the card in my box, megaraid. So the link you have below will be helpful. I booted w/ a supported spare scsi card then built the new driver and edit modprobe.conf and did mkinitrd, updated grub and all went well. Another great resource is the Dell Linux on PE list
http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
Good luck-
On 11/10/06, Phillip Crump pjcrump@bitstream.net wrote:
I have a new (used)Dell Poweredge 1550 server with 2 scsi drives (dual
1ghz
w/ 2048MB) that I'm attempting to install CentOs 4 onto and am having problems getting the darn thing to recognize the hard drives. (it's worth noting that it's running RAID 0 and the RAID bios recognizes both drives
as
being in "optimal" state). I start the installation process and all is going well until it autoprobes. All other hardware is found except for the hard drives. The install subsequently fails because there
the
drives can't be found.
I have been googling my brain out over the last week and this seems to be
an
issue with installing linux on this particular server model. (surrounding the megaraid driver and have tried many of the things out there to no avail.
To see what I have been trying checkout this mailing list entry: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-August/010021.html
Any advice that anyone can give is appreciated!
PJ
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On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 01:20 -0600, Phillip Crump wrote:
I have a new (used)Dell Poweredge 1550 server with 2 scsi drives (dual 1ghz w/ 2048MB) that I'm attempting to install CentOs 4 onto and am having problems getting the darn thing to recognize the hard drives. (it's worth noting that it's running RAID 0 and the RAID bios recognizes both drives as being in "optimal" state). I start the installation process and all is going well until it autoprobes. All other hardware is found except for the hard drives. The install subsequently fails because there the drives can't be found.
I have been googling my brain out over the last week and this seems to be an issue with installing linux on this particular server model. (surrounding the megaraid driver and have tried many of the things out there to no avail.
To see what I have been trying checkout this mailing list entry: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-August/010021.html
Any advice that anyone can give is appreciated!
PJ
If it is a PERC 2 card it is not supported by CentOS (thanks to a RHEL kernel decision) ... so you will need to build the proper kernel module to use.
Look here:
http://sigurd.hogsbro.org/blog/archives/39
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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