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 > > --- > If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable > fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >