[Cialug] Perc3 RAID

[Jon Clemons]

AACRAID is the Perc3 module.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Champion" <dave@visionary.com>
To: <cialug@cialug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Perc3 RAID


> Tony Bibbs wrote:
>> I have a Dell PowerEdge 2450 with a Perc 3 RAID controller in it.  After 
>> getting Gentoo built on it, reboots produce a kernel panic.  Dave Weis 
>> got me started in the right direction by suggesting the kernel can't find 
>> the controller.  I went into menuconfig and included the LSI megaraid, 
>> recompiled and rebooted but still got the same problem.
>>
>> Next, I went in and enabled the Adaptec AHAXXXX options in the kernel. 
>> Again I recompiled and rebooted and this time the kernel recognizes both 
>> of the SCSI channels (A and B) but still gave a kernel panic.
>>
>> Anybody else got Perc 3 card running under linux?  If so could you get me 
>> the corresponding kernel options you brought in?
>>
>> TIA,
>
> I'm running a Dell 2650 w/ a PERC RAID controller on a linux box running 
> Mandrake 10.1.
>
> From dmesg:
>
> scsi0 : percraid
>   Vendor: DELL      Model:                   Rev: V1.0
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> SCSI device sda: 142182912 512-byte hdwr sectors (72798 MB)
> Partition check:
>  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 >
> Journalled Block Device driver loaded
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
>
> from /proc/pci :
>
>   Bus  4, device   8, function  1:
>     RAID bus controller: Dell Computer Corporation PowerEdge Expandable 
> RAID Con
> troller 3 (rev 1).
>       IRQ 30.
>       Master Capable.  Latency=32.
>       Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf0000000 [0xf7ffffff].
>
> It's using a kernel module called "aacraid", not sure if that's for the 
> Perc controller or the other adaptec scsi card used for a TBU.
>
> -dc
>
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