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
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