From: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2100S
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:43:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20040126133144.0200e830@celine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0401261723230.18923@pluton.chilepac.com>
At 05:29 PM 1/26/2004 -0300, Rodrigo Gesswein wrote:
>Hello!
>
> I have a new server with an Adaptec 2100S hardware raid controller
>and _only_ scsi hard disks. I'm trying to install debian linux 3.0r2 but the
>hard disk are not recognized by the default kernel.
> Does anyone have a clue about this situation ?? any information will
>be very usefull.
Info on this seems to be fairly hard to track down. With a bit of Googling,
I turned up this much:
Apparently the 2100s requires a dpt_i2o.o module. This is (or was; I can't
find an actual link) available from Adaptec, and it *may* be the same
module that is now part of recent 2.4.x kernels (associated with "Adaptec
I2O RAID support").
In any case, this link the closest I can to working instructions ...
http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Load_RAID.html
... and it does not describe a complete process -- though it does discuss
compiling the module for kernel 2.2.19 and concerting the Debian bootdisks
to use that kernel.
I suspect you will need eventually to compile a kernel with initrd support
so it can load the needed modules before trying to mount the root
filesystem on the RAID array. Or you will need to boot/init from a
different location -- were I facing this problem, I'd add a small (10-20 GB
or so, small by today's standards) IDE drive and use it as boot media and
the root filesystem ... mounting the RAID array at a point appropriate to
whatever use calls for a RAID array (/home ? some database directory?).
For more information, try Googling "linux Adaptec 2100S debian".
Especially if you read German (I don't), you'll find a lot.
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2004-01-26 20:29 Adaptec 2100S Rodrigo Gesswein
2004-01-26 21:43 ` Ray Olszewski [this message]
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