Hi,
I did another attempt but now sing the latest qlogic driver
(tat I used to create an extra driver disk).
But still no luck. Below are the complete messages after which
the installer refuses to go on (cannot find a suitable disk to
install on):
scsi(0): Found a QLA312 @ bus 2, device 3 IRQ 3 iobase 0x00002400
scsi(0): Allocated 4096 SRB(s)
scsi(0): Configuring NVRAM parameters...
scsi(0): 32 Bit PCI Addressing Enabled
scsi(0): Scattter/Gather entries= 896
scsi(0): Verifying loaded RISC code...
scsi(0): Verifying chip...
scsi(0): LIP reset occurred.
scsi(0): Waiting for LIP to complete...
scsi(0): LOOP UP detected.
scsi(0): Port database changed.
scsi(0): Topology - (F_Port), Host Loop address 0xffff
scsi0 : QLogic QLA2312 PCI to Fibre Channel Host Adapter: bus 2 device 3 irq 3
Firmware version: 3.02.13, Driver version: 6.06.00
blk: queue f7fdd614, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Vendor: IBM Model: 2105F20 Rev: .114
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
blk: queue f7fdd614, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
scsi(0:0:0:0): Enabled tagged queuing, queue depth 32.
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 20312512 512-byte hdwr sectors (10400 MB)
Partition check:
sda: unknown partition table
scsi(0) qla2x00_isr MBA_PORT_UPDATE ignored
scsi(0): Waiting for LIP to complete...
scsi(0): Topology - (F_Port), Host Loop address 0xffff
-Marcel
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:30:00PM +0200, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote:
> HI,
>
> I'm trying to install Redhat 9 on a machine that only has a SAN attached
> disk. Unfortunately it seems to fail.
>
> The SAN controller is a Qlogic 'QLA2312' card and the disk resides on
> an IBM Shark ESS.
>
> After booting from floppy and loading the drvblock disk, the qla2200.o
> and qla2300.o drivers are loaded and it seems a disk is found.
> The messages on console 4 show something like:
>
> LIP reset occured
> LOOP UP detected
> QLogic QLA 2312 pci .....
> Firmware version: 3.01.13 Driver version 6.01.00-fo
>
> and about the disk:
>
> sda: IBM Model 2105F20 rev: .144
>
> It detects the proper size of the disk (e.g. 10G)
> and issues the message:
>
> sda: unknown partition type
>
> So apparantly the SAN disk is recognized. However the installation process
> still says no valid device for installation is found and asks for other driver
> disks!
>
> I tried to build the latest qlogic driver (6.06) but failed to create a proper
> module for the install-kernel.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Regards,
>
> -Marcel
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