When installing Linux on a pair of new dual-opteron servers (16GB of RAM
and a MegaRAID 320-2), neither the megaraid v1, nor v2 drivers could
talk to the actual MegaRAID hardware. The v1 driver simply caused the
system to lock up, wheras the v2 driver produces the error "megaraid:
maibox adapter did not initialize" after a while.
Googling for the error produced this slightly old result, which fits the
problem perfectly:
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2004-Jun/0345.html
And indeed, passing the argument "mem=3000000k" to the kernel allows the
card to be detected fine by the v2 driver. We have a lot of 8GB Opterons
running Megaraid cards fine, but this is the first time we've bought
16GB models. This is the first problem we've seen, so I'm guessing that
the MegaRAID firmware has issues writing to RAM higher than somewhere
between 8 and 16GB...
Should we be looking for a new RAID card or is there a way to fix this?
Why has seemingly nobody else had this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Russ Garrett
russ@xxxxxxx
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