[Cialug] Perc3 RAID

[Tony Bibbs]

excellent. I'll give that a try.

--Tony

Jon Clemons wrote:
> 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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