Bug#228964: [alex@nibbles.it: Re: Bug#228964: Sarge beta2 installer and LSI Logic MegaRaid controller]

[David Nusinow <dnusinow@sbcglobal.net>]

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Subject: Re: Bug#228964: Sarge beta2 installer and LSI Logic MegaRaid
	controller
From: Alessandro Polverini <alex@nibbles.it>
To: David Nusinow <dnusinow@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:15:51 +0100

Hello David,

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 06:38, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:20:30PM +0100, Alessandro Polverini wrote:
> > Here is the relevant rows from lspci and lspci-n:
> > 
> > 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 1000Base? (rev 12)
> > 02:05.0 Class 0200: 10b7:1700 (rev 12)
> > 
> > The corrisponding driver is 'sk98lin'.
> 
> Great. Thank you. I'll fix this right away.

Thanks to you! :)

> > What about point #3, related to Megaraid2 driver?
> 
> Can you give me a few more details? Does the megaraid driver not work?
> If the device should definitely be using the megaraid2 driver, send me
> the relevant lspci and lspci -n listings for that too, and I'll fix
> discover for that as well. Thanks!

02:0b.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic PowerEdge
Expandable RAID Controller 4 (rev 01)
02:0b.0 Class 0104: 1000:1960 (rev 01)

I think that it should definitely use the megaraid2 driver, for a number
of reasons:
- much more modern driver, supporting also very recent controllers
- supports /proc/megadrive interface, necessary for monitoring the
health of the array

Also, beware that in linux 2.6 the old megaraid driver has been dumped
and megaraid2 has been renamed megaraid again...

So, I think that the installer should be smart enough to use "megaraid2"
or "megaraid" depending on the release of the kernel instaling.

Last thing: after installing sarge on my server with both raid disks
(megaraid) and one ide disk, the system booted and worked well from the
raid disk but the ide controller was not detected (piix).
I had to put extra modules in /etc/modules to make it work, but in this
way /etc/init.d/hdparm does not work because it starts _before_ loading
modules from /etc/modules.

Thanks for your time, and please tell me if I could be of any help,
Alex

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