SCSI disk problem

[Fred Nussbaum]

Skylar,

thanks for the advice!

Fred.

--- Skylar Thompson <skylar at cs.earlham.edu> wrote:

> Fred Nussbaum wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I try to install SuSe 9.x professional on my Intel
> >SE7520JR2 motherboard and until now fail to do so.
> The
> >motherboard has two I/O contollers: a ICH5R
> controller
> >for two (Seagate) SATA disks and a LSI 53C1010
> >controller for the two (Maxtor U320) SCSI disks.
> Both
> >controllers claim to support RAID 1. I intend to
> >install Linux on the SCSI disks and do a software
> >mirroring for SuSe (and Fedora Core 3) as this
> (still)
> >works fine since RedHat 6.2.
> >The problem (I think) I face is with the SCSI
> disks.
> >They are not found by the SuSE installer,
> eventhough
> >the disks are seen by the BIOS and the
> configuration
> >utility for the LSI controller. The installer
> 'hangs'
> >after displaying 'Looking for info file ...'. The
> only
> >thing that can be done then is a hard reset. The
> same
> >applies to Fedora Core 3 (after loading the mptbase
> >and mptscsih driver) 
> >What settings do I need for the BIOS and/or the LSI
> >configuration utility to be able to use the disks
> and
> >install (both) O.S.('s)?
> >
> >I hope someone has a positive installation
> experience
> >with this hardware.
> >  
> >
> 
> I've run into problems with the new U320 LSI
> controllers. I have a Dell 
> PowerEdge 1750 I tried throwing FreeBSD on, but the
> controller really is 
> a pass-through device to a back-end drive interface.
> In other words, the 
> controller shows up the same, whether it's
> SCSI/RAID/FC-AL/whatever. 
> FreeBSD tried initializing the controller as a RAID
> device, even though 
> we don't have the RAID daughter card. I got pretty
> much the same errors 
> that you're seeing, with the controller barfing and
> the kernel panicing 
> after a few minutes of probing.
> 
> After lots of head-banging, I did manage to get
> FreeBSD to boot, but 
> only after I popped out all the drives except the
> first one. In the end, 
> I ended up throwing Fedora Core 2 on it, which works
> fine. I guess my 
> suggestion is to make sure you're using the v2.6
> kernel, and to try 
> tweaking your SCSI settings in the kernel. You might
> try Fedora or 
> another distro if you can't get SuSE working.
> 
> -- 
> -- Skylar Thompson (skylar at cs.earlham.edu)
> -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
> 
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