[Quantian-general] Quantian on Proliant DL360 G3 with 5i Smart Array, no hard disks visible

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Martian,

(CCing debian-knoppix as you posted there too, and got helpful responses.)

On 9 March 2006 at 08:23, Martin Schenker wrote:
| Is there an easy solution for auto-mounting a SCSI array while starting
| Quantian on a HP Proliant DL360 G3 (with 5i Smart Array) server? The hard
| drive(s) don't show up after booting. I'm not that familiar with the LINUX
| env., so any pointers in the right direction are appreciated. I've tried to
| get some information from the various Knoppix sites on the web, but only
| could find very little (see below) 

You may be the first/only user of Knoppix and/or Quantian and such an array.
So whatever you find out, please do report it back to Klaus as it cannot
otherwise get reflected in future versions.

| I've tried the releases 0.7.9.1 and 0.7.9.2, here are the results:
| 
| 
| 0.7.9.1:
|  
| I tried the following approach, running the linux24 kernel (linux26
|  resulted in a kernel panic):

(You probably fell for the annoying but otherwise harmless -- and documented
on the bugs.html page for Quanian as well as the list archives here -- bug of
isolinux.cfg having a default kernel 'knoppix' which had no image requiring
you to type 'linux26' at the prompt. Quantian 0.7.9.1 then boots fine.)

| -Open a shell window. 
| -Type 'su' (no quotes) to become root. 
| -Type 'insmod cciss'  
| -Type 'cd /dev' 
| -Type 'MAKEDEV cciss' (this is case-sensitive). 
| 
| OK, so far, so good. How do I acces the drive from there? (Still no icon on
| the desk, don't laugh...) 

The short tutorial on mounting you got on debian-knoppix probably helped, let
us know. To get the icons you need to re-run the hardware detection part of
the setup scripts. I don't think there is an easy way to call a script to do
just that ...

| I can see both drives with qtparted, both have been NTFS formatted (the
| machine was running Win2003 server before). Running Quantian on my Laptop
| brought all the NTFS drives up without any problems, so I assume the 5i
| Smart Array is the culprit... Right now I don't want to reformat the
| drives, I'm still testing...

Well the upside is that you can't destroy if you don't see them :)

| 0.7.9.2:
| 
| With the new release, the "insmod cciss" command seems not to work
| anymore. It complains insmod can't find the file "ccicc". I can run the

It is there -- find from the top of my Quantian sources shows:

root at joe:/home/edd/src/quantian/source # find . -name cciss\*
./lib/modules/2.6.12/kernel/drivers/block/cciss.ko
./lib/modules/2.4.27-om-20040808/kernel/drivers/block/cciss.o

What does 'modprobe -l | grep cciss' say?  Shows it too for me right now in a
VMware Player session...

| kernel 26 without a major hickup, but kde has a problem and generates an
| error. After closing and restarting a new session it seem to behave. But
| still no drives visible.  

That is also documented on quantian/bugs.html: For some reason kdesktop has
an issue on startup. You need to set a schema in the 'konsole' application
(Klick on the 'black terminal icon' to start konsole, then select
Settings->Schema->Linux Colors, say) and then manually run kdesktop. All is
fine afterwards, and I do not know what caused it. Possibly the KDE library
upgrade I did to get newer apps and a working kdvi et al.

Regards, Dirk

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