Re: Newvbie hard drive controller question
Thanks Bob, that helped.
I now see the controller in the output of lspci:
03:06.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc PCI0649 (rev 02)
Now... can I load the driver up as a module or do I have a kernel compile in my
future?
As an aside, I was also surprised that Debian 'stable' was using 2.2. Seems like
they should move that out to 'legacy' and move 2.4 to stable. Oh well..
Thanks again for the help, let me know if you have any other tips on getting a
driver loaded up for this CMD Technology Inc card.
Stu
--- Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Zer0bit@yahoo.com wrote:
> > I'm new to Debian and I've loaded 2.2.20-compact on a Compaq
> > Proliant DL380 that is in a remote location.
>
> I am very sorry to hear that you loaded the linux-2.2 kernel. Almost
> certainly that will come back to cause you trouble. But it is a
> trap. Debian stable is very old and at that time the linux-2.4 kernel
> was very new and not trusted for the release. But in hindsight the
> linux-2.4 kernel has been a very good kernel.
>
> > The DL380 has a SmartArray SCSI RAID controller which is working
> > well, it also has two IDE controllers, the on-board Compaq
> > controller, and a PCI SIIG "raid" controller. The on-board
> > controller works fine, but I am not able to access the PCI card
> > based controller which has two WD 120GB drives in a software RAID
> > that are used for backup.
>
> Here is the lspci output from one of my DL360s for the disk
> controllers. Are yours similar in your DL380?
>
> 00:04.0 RAID bus controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 5i/532
> (rev 01)
> 00:0f.1 IDE interface: ServerWorks CSB5 IDE Controller (rev 93)
>
> > The PCI controller card was detected at install, but it seems that
> > the drivers aren't loaded in the installed kernel as I don't see any
> > info in dmesg and can't access the devices attached to the
> > controller.
> >
> > Unfortunatly I don't have much info on the PCI card. I'm 90% sure
> > it's a SIIG, but no info other than that. How can I go about
> > detecting the controller and getting the right driver loaded so I
> > can mount the disk?
>
> lspci
>
> > I'm hundreds of miles from the server so botching up the kernel
> > would be bad...
>
> I hate reinstalling kernels when I have no access to the hardware.
> There are so many things that can if they go wrong you must physically
> access the box to repair.
>
> Bob
>
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