Recovering nested raid (was LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot)

2012-06-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:46:55 +0200 Ramon Hofer wrote: > I'm again having problems with the disks getting kicked out of the > array :-o I've already asked this before on the debian list and got an answer. But I'm not sure if I should do this. Here's a link to my old problem: http://lists.debian.

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-17 Thread Ramon Hofer
I'm again having problems with the disks getting kicked out of the array :-o First of all the old WD green 2TB disk which was marked failed also makes problems in the Netgear ReadyNas. I will see if I still have warranty and try to get a new one. But the other issue scares me a bit ;-) Here's wh

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-16 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:40:56 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Well lets look at this more closely. The disks may not be bad. How > old are they? Send me your dmesg output: Sorry I forgot to write the last time: The WD20EARS I have bough between 14. Dec 2010 and 01. Oct 2011. Maybe it was also ca

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:40:56 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/15/2012 8:36 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > > First of all I tried to set the raid5 with the WD 20EARS and didn't > > have much luck. They led to fail events when mdadm builds the array. > > They "worked" in my Netgear NV+ with very low

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:38:27 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/14/2012 4:51 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > >> These commands don't match the pastebin. The pastebin shows you > >> creating a 4 disk RAID5 as /dev/md0. > > > > Really :-? > > That kind of (wrong) analysis is one of the many outcomes

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/14/2012 8:02 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > AF drives are Advanced Format drives with more than 512 bytes per > sector right? Correct. Advanced Format is the industry wide name chosen for drives that have 4096B physical sectors, but present 512B sectors at the interface level, doing translation i

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/14/2012 9:45 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:38:27 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Couldn't hurt. And while you're at it, mount with "inode64" in your >> fstab immediately after you create the XFS. You were running with >> inode32, which sticks all the inodes at the front

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-14 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:38:27 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Couldn't hurt. And while you're at it, mount with "inode64" in your > fstab immediately after you create the XFS. You were running with > inode32, which sticks all the inodes at the front of AG0 causing lots > of seeks. Inode64 puts fil

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-14 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 03:29:25 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/13/2012 2:22 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:30:43 -0500 > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > This chain is so long I'm going to liberally snip lots of stuff > already covered. Hope that's ok. Sure. Your mail still blew

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/13/2012 1:04 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:35:57 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >>> Hmm, probably I have to create a raid5 with the four empty 2 TB >>> disks attached to the LSI. Then: >>> >>> ~$ mdadm -C /dev/md0 -n1 -l linear /dev/md1 >> >> WTF? > > I also had to add --f

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/13/2012 2:22 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:30:43 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: This chain is so long I'm going to liberally snip lots of stuff already covered. Hope that's ok. >> Note I stated "call". You're likely to get more/better >> information/assistance speaking to

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-13 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:30:43 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/12/2012 8:40 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:30:08 -0500 > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > >> Try the Wheezy installer. Try OpenSuSE. Try Fedora. If any of > >> these work without lockup we know the problem is Debian

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-13 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:35:57 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Hmm, probably I have to create a raid5 with the four empty 2 TB > > disks attached to the LSI. Then: > > > > ~$ mdadm -C /dev/md0 -n1 -l linear /dev/md1 > > WTF? I also had to add --force to create the array with one raid5. > > Now

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/12/2012 12:05 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:30:08 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > (...) > >> You create two 4 drive md RAID5 arrays, one composed of the four >> identical 1.5TB drives and the other composed of the four identical >> 2TB drives. Then concatenate the two ar

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/12/2012 8:40 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:30:08 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Try the Wheezy installer. Try OpenSuSE. Try Fedora. If any of these >> work without lockup we know the problem is Debian 6. However... > > I didn't do this because it the LSI worked with t

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-12 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:30:08 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: (...) > You create two 4 drive md RAID5 arrays, one composed of the four > identical 1.5TB drives and the other composed of the four identical > 2TB drives. Then concatenate the two arrays together into an md > --linear array, similar to t

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-12 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
updates. > > I mailed them and got this answer: > > "Unfortunately, the system board has not been qualified on the hardware > compatibility list for the LSI MegaRAID 9240 series controllers. There > could be any number of reason for this, either it has not yet been > t

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-12 Thread Ramon Hofer
cause I couldn't install OpenSuSE nor Fedora. But I will give it another try... > Please call LSI support before you attempt any additional > BIOS/firmware updates. I mailed them and got this answer: "Unfortunately, the system board has not been qualified on the hardware compatibilit

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-10 Thread Ramon Hofer
A situation update: Mounted the mobo with the CPU and RAM, attached the PSU, the OS SATA disk, the LSI and expander as well as the graphics card. There are no disks attached to the expander because I put them again into the old NAS and backing up the data from the 1.5 TB disks to it. Then I instal

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/6/2012 9:36 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > It's me again. > > After several unsuccessful tries to update the BIOS I brought it back to > my dealer to let him do it. > He now says that the mainboard is broken and I get my money back. Interesting... > Now my question is should I go for the same mai

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
It's me again. After several unsuccessful tries to update the BIOS I brought it back to my dealer to let him do it. He now says that the mainboard is broken and I get my money back. Now my question is should I go for the same mainboard again or what do you recommend? I suppose the LSI problem was

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/30/2012 4:52 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2012 20:49:32 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 5/29/2012 7:09 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: >>> On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500 >>> Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> >>> (...) >>> Does the mobo BIOS show the disk device? If not, does the 924

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-30 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 29 May 2012 20:49:32 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/29/2012 7:09 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500 > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > > (...) > > > >> Does the mobo BIOS show the disk device? If not, does the 9240 > >> BIOS show the disk device, RAID level,

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:09:27 +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> Did you already flash the C7P67 BIOS to the latest version? I can't >> recall. > > I have tried to do that but it was quite strange. I created a freedos > usb stick with unetbootin and copied the files for the update from > supermicro int

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/29/2012 7:09 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > (...) > >> Does the mobo BIOS show the disk device? If not, does the 9240 BIOS >> show the disk device, RAID level, and its size? >> >> What we need to figure out is whether this is a BIOS p

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-29 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: (...) > Does the mobo BIOS show the disk device? If not, does the 9240 BIOS > show the disk device, RAID level, and its size? > > What we need to figure out is whether this is a BIOS problem at this > point or a Debian installer kernel dr

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/21/2012 2:00 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > From my /var/log/installer/syslog I think it uses 2.6.32-5-amd64. > I have attached the tree log files again (maybe you haven't seen them > when I posted them to the list). > There are two syslogs (the one from /var/log as well). And > the /var/log/instal

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 21 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2012 23:35:58 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> Thanks for the suggestion, Henrique! > >> The PSU is a 750 W so I think it should be enough for now. > > > > Yes, it is probably enough. You have to do a lot to overpower a *good*

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-21 Thread Ramon Hofer
t; >> > >> Command syntax: MegaCli -adpfwflash -f imr_fw.rom -a0 > > > > So I download the MegaCLI from [2] and read the MegaCLI readme [3]: > > > >> Installation Commands: > >> === > >> 1. Copy MegaCli.exe to a folder. >

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/20/2012 1:13 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> There were no problems upgrading the fw :-) >> >> Unfortunately it didn't solve he problem. > > Grrr. > >>> 3. Go into the mobo BIOS and set and test these options: >>> >>> Quiet Boot:

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:59:53 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/20/2012 1:13 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> I was able to set a RAID1 in the WebBIOS and set the bootable option. >> But I'm not sure if the setting was accepted. Even though when I set >> the bootable option again the WebBIOS tells me

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 23:35:58 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:06:40 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> > On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> >> On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:19:33 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/20/2012 1:13 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > I was able to set a RAID1 in the WebBIOS and set the bootable option. But > I'm not sure if the setting was accepted. Even though when I set the > bootable option again the WebBIOS tells me the option is already set - so > it should be ok? > > Unfortu

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/20/2012 1:13 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > There were no problems upgrading the fw :-) > > Unfortunately it didn't solve he problem. Grrr. >> 3. Go into the mobo BIOS and set and test these options: >> >> Quiet Boot: DISABLED >> Interrupt 19 Capture:

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 20 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:06:40 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:19:33 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> > On 5/19/2012 2:52 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> >> On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:5

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
llation Commands: >> === >> 1. Copy MegaCli.exe to a folder. >> 2. Run MegaCli from the Command Prompt. Use -h option to see help > menu. > > I create a FreeDOS USB stick with unetbooting. Copy MegaCli.exe and the > imr_fw.rom [4] into a folde

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:31:51 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/19/2012 5:33 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> Yes, I'm really thankful for the recommendation. And somehow I hoped >> you could jump in and help me :-) > > I'm actively working on it, have been for a couple of hours on and off. > I'm re

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
Cli.exe to a folder. > 2.Run MegaCli from the Command Prompt. Use -h option to see help menu. I create a FreeDOS USB stick with unetbooting. Copy MegaCli.exe and the imr_fw.rom [4] into a folder on the USB stick, boot it and run the above command to flash the card? [1] http://www.lsi.

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 May 2012 12:12:55 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:41:33 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Mmm, have you tried to set a RAID level instead using JBOD? It's just >> for testing... although this can only be done in a very early stage >> when the disks are completely empty wit

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:06:40 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:19:33 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> > On 5/19/2012 2:52 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> >> On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:57:56 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >> >> >>> On

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:41:33 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I have tried to check if I can see something in the mb BIOS to see if >> it can tell me anything about the connected hardware. But I didn't find >> anything in the PCI settings. > > Mmm, have you tried to set a RAID level instead using

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 20 May 2012, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/19/2012 11:05 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: > And after a while there are more messages which I don't understand. I > have taken a picture: > http://666kb.com/i/c3wf606sc1qkcvgoc.jpg

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/19/2012 11:05 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: And after a while there are more messages which I don't understand. I have taken a picture: http://666kb.com/i/c3wf606sc1qkcvgoc.jpg >>> >>> It shows that udev is having serious troubl

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/19/2012 5:33 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > Yes, I'm really thankful for the recommendation. > And somehow I hoped you could jump in and help me :-) I'm actively working on it, have been for a couple of hours on and off. I'm reading your responses as I go before responding so I hopefully don't re

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:19:33 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 5/19/2012 2:52 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:57:56 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> > >>> On 5/18/2012 9:39 AM, Shane Johnson wrote: > >>> > After that I would look t

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> And after a while there are more messages which I don't understand. I > >> have taken a picture: > >> http://666kb.com/i/c3wf606sc1qkcvgoc.jpg > > > > It shows that udev is having serious trouble handling one of the USB > > devices. > > Yes but only wh

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:26:09 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012 09:09:52 +, Camaleón wrote: >> You installed the lsi card in one of the motherboard slots, configured >> the BIOS to use a JBOD disk layout and then boot the installation CD >> for Squeeze, right? > > Yes, but I did

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
with 2.120.244-1482 which seems more in the format the > version listed in my cards BIOS. > > [1] http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/MegaRAID%20Common% > 20Files/20.10.1-0077_SAS_2008_FW_Image_APP-2.120.244-1482.zip When I start the system the card shows it's version before

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 09:09:52 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012 21:55:36 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Fri, 18 May 2012 20:18:46 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Are you running Squeeze? >> >> Yes, sorry forgot to mention. >> >> I installed squeeze amd64 yesterday on a raid1 (just t

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:19:33 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/19/2012 2:52 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:57:56 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >>> On 5/18/2012 9:39 AM, Shane Johnson wrote: >>> After that I would look to see if something isn't shorting out a USB port

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
#x27;t understand. I >> have taken a picture: >> http://666kb.com/i/c3wf606sc1qkcvgoc.jpg > > It shows that udev is having serious trouble handling one of the USB > devices. Yes but only when the lsi card is attached. When it's removed the messages don't appear. An

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 18:28:05 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/18/2012 4:55 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> I installed squeeze amd64 yesterday on a raid1 (just to try). > > You need to explain this in detail: "installed on raid1" > > Installed onto what raid1? Does this mean you created an mdad

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/19/2012 2:52 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:57:56 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 5/18/2012 9:39 AM, Shane Johnson wrote: >> >>> After that I would look to see if >>> something isn't shorting out a USB port. >> >> Yes, USB is the cause of the over-current errors, which is

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 May 2012 21:55:36 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012 20:18:46 +, Camaleón wrote: >> Are you running Squeeze? > > Yes, sorry forgot to mention. > > I installed squeeze amd64 yesterday on a raid1 (just to try). Today when > the card was here I put it in and couldn't b

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:57:56 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/18/2012 9:39 AM, Shane Johnson wrote: > >> After that I would look to see if >> something isn't shorting out a USB port. > > Yes, USB is the cause of the over-current errors, which is plainly > evident in his screen shot. But we don

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/18/2012 4:55 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > I installed squeeze amd64 yesterday on a raid1 (just to try). You need to explain this in detail: "installed on raid1" Installed onto what raid1? Does this mean you created an mdadm raid1 pair during the Squeeze installation process, and installed to

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/18/2012 9:39 AM, Shane Johnson wrote: > Over current problems from what I have seen are hardware problems - I would > make sure the intel expander doesn't need a external power source and if it > does that it is functioning properly. Ramon is well aware of the power configuration for the ex

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/18/2012 9:23 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > Hi all > > I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. > > Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this > message on the screen: > > megasas: INIT adapter done > hub 4-1:1.0 over-current condition on port 7 > hub 4-1:

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 20:18:46 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:23:51 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. >> >> Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this >> message on the screen: >> >> megasas: INIT adapt

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:23:51 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. > > Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this > message on the screen: > > megasas: INIT adapter done > hub 4-1:1.0 over-current condition on port 7 > hub 4

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 08:39:57 -0600, Shane Johnson wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Ramon Hofer > wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. >> >> Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this >> message on the screen: >> >> meg

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Shane Johnson
Over current problems from what I have seen are hardware problems - I would make sure the intel expander doesn't need a external power source and if it does that it is functioning properly. After that I would look to see if something isn't shorting out a USB port. Shane On Fri, May 18, 2012 at

LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this message on the screen: megasas: INIT adapter done hub 4-1:1.0 over-current condition on port 7 hub 4-1:1.0 over-current condition on port 8 I also got the over-cur

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Re: Megaraid HP Proliant ML330

2006-05-15 Thread Grant Thomas
This may not be of assistance to the Megaraid question I have, but installing the system on one of the drives listed in the installer installs to just one drive. Even though HW RAID in active, it only access the individual disk. I tried to use software RIAD in it's place, but after I mad

Megaraid HP Proliant ML330

2006-05-15 Thread Grant Thomas
I have a question regarding hardware RAID on a Megaraid controller. Using a netinstall etch CD, the installer recognizes my Hardware raid controller and the disks in it, but not the HW array. I have initialized a RAID 1 array in the setup utility provided after the machine posts. During boot

Re: Looking for a Debian Sarge installer ISO with megaraid...

2006-03-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
I have allready answered this in another message. The modules are "megaraid.o" and "megaraid2.o" and are in the Sarge-installer. Greetings Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://c

Re: Looking for a Debian Sarge installer ISO with megaraid...

2006-03-20 Thread Hex Star
ebian because all the servers HDs are connected through it...the reason why I believe the megaraid driver will work for it is because Fedora Core 4 sees the RAID fine with that driver and has been installed via that driver, and Knoppix uses that driver as well to interface with the HDs so I believe it&

Re: Looking for a Debian Sarge installer ISO with megaraid...

2006-03-20 Thread chouck
rest of the cds containing the packages that come with the Debian Sarge > 3.1r1 installer CD) that has support for the devices supported in the > kernels already included with the installer CD and I need it to support the > megaraid driver..anyone know where I can find this? Or perhaps c

Re: Looking for a Debian Sarge installer ISO with megaraid...

2006-03-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 19 March 2006 16:40, Hex Star wrote: > Ah, yeah I tried doing modprobe megaraid and it said module not > found...how would I go about finding out if the module is included in > the installer CD and if so what it's called so I can modprobe it? > Thanks! :-) > >

Re: Looking for a Debian Sarge installer ISO with megaraid...

2006-03-19 Thread Hex Star
Ah, yeah I tried doing modprobe megaraid and it said module not found...how would I go about finding out if the module is included in the installer CD and if so what it's called so I can modprobe it? Thanks! :-) On 3/19/06, Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 19 March 2006

Re: Looking for a Debian Sarge installer ISO with megaraid...

2006-03-19 Thread Greg Madden
e kernels already included with the installer CD and I > need it to support the megaraid driver..anyone know where I can find > this? Or perhaps could someone build this for me please? Or perhaps > someone could create a custom installer boot floppy that satisfies this > need? Thanks! I am

Looking for a Debian Sarge installer ISO with megaraid...

2006-03-19 Thread Hex Star
t the megaraid driver..anyone know where I can find this? Or perhaps could someone build this for me please? Or perhaps someone could create a custom installer boot floppy that satisfies this need? Thanks!

Re: I want to install over a MegaRaid

2005-11-21 Thread Joseph H. Fry
On Monday 21 November 2005 11:36 am, MATEO MARCH SORIANO wrote: > I have a MegaRaid IDE ATA 100, when I try to install my Debian over thi I > gone to official Web LSI Logic but only find drivers for redhat, suse and > Turbo Linux. > I asked to they about this device over Debian and h

I want to install over a MegaRaid

2005-11-21 Thread MATEO MARCH SORIANO
I have a MegaRaid IDE ATA 100, when I try to install my Debian over thi I gone to official Web LSI Logic but only find drivers for redhat, suse and Turbo Linux. I asked to they about this device over Debian and his anwer had been the question in the mail. What can I do? Thank you. De: Dykes

Re: Temporary 'lock-up' under heavy write, MegaRAID RAID-5

2005-11-10 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 09.11.2005 at 10:46 +, Dave Ewart wrote: > System: 4-way Opteron, generic Debian Sarge AMD64 > RAID controller: LSI Logic MegaRAID 320-1, 64MB cache > RAID config: Three 146GB 15K SCSI/320 disks, RAID-5 > Kernel: 2.6.14 SMP, includes meg

Re: Temporary 'lock-up' under heavy write, MegaRAID RAID-5

2005-11-10 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 09.11.2005 at 12:25 +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:46 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > The above system is incredibly fast under almost all conditions, except > > when writing very large files (say, 100s of MB, or even GB). When > > > Any other suggestio

Re: Temporary 'lock-up' under heavy write, MegaRAID RAID-5

2005-11-09 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:46 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > The above system is incredibly fast under almost all conditions, except > when writing very large files (say, 100s of MB, or even GB). When > Any other suggestions or reports of similar experiences? Sorry, no solution, but a me too post.

Temporary 'lock-up' under heavy write, MegaRAID RAID-5

2005-11-09 Thread Dave Ewart
System: 4-way Opteron, generic Debian Sarge AMD64 RAID controller: LSI Logic MegaRAID 320-1, 64MB cache RAID config: Three 146GB 15K SCSI/320 disks, RAID-5 Kernel: 2.6.14 SMP, includes megaraid driver The above system is incredibly fast under almost all conditions, except

Kernel 2.6.13 and megaraid

2005-10-07 Thread Shawn Bishop
PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 04) :03:02.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID (rev 01) :04:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02) :05:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL

Re: RES: Problem with MegaRaid sata 150-2d raid controller.

2005-07-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:29:11PM -0300, Tomás Corrêa wrote: > I have the same problem with IBM xSeries 346 and scsi disks. > Any ideias? If you know which driver you need for the raid controller, you can build your own kernel and put it on an installation CD. On http://wiki.osuosl.org/displa

RES: Problem with MegaRaid sata 150-2d raid controller.

2005-07-12 Thread Tomás Corrêa
I have the same problem with IBM xSeries 346 and scsi disks. Any ideias? Thanks -Mensagem original- De: Johann Spies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: segunda-feira, 11 de julho de 2005 09:38 Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org Assunto: Re: Problem with MegaRaid sata 150-2d raid

Re: Problem with MegaRaid sata 150-2d raid controller.

2005-07-11 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 01:10:16PM +0300, Meni Shapiro wrote: >Problem with sata raid controller. >I'm try to install debian serge (latest stable) on a u1 server with LSI >MegaRaid sata 150-2d controller but the intaller doesn't recognize the >driver. Try

Problem with MegaRaid sata 150-2d raid controller.

2005-07-11 Thread Meni Shapiro
Hi, Problem with sata raid controller. I'm try to install debian serge (latest stable) on a u1 server with LSI MegaRaid sata 150-2d controller but the intaller doesn't recognize the driver. What should i do?? -- --Meni Szapiro

LSI MegaRAID ATA 133

2005-06-29 Thread yoggy
Hello, I have a Raid Controller: LSI MegaRAID ATA 133. I'm installing Debian 3.1r0a (Sarge) but Sarge see 2 hard disk (hde and hdg) and not 1 disk (I configured raid controler for mirroring). (I tested it with kernel 2.4 and 2.6) Can you help me p

Re: Debain woody install with a Megaraid 320-2

2004-11-15 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Brian Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > > > I have a Supermicro server with an LSI Megaraid > 320-2 that I am trying to > install Debian Woody on. The standard boot images > are not able to recognize > the Megaraid SCSI controller so I am

Debain woody install with a Megaraid 320-2

2004-11-15 Thread Brian Schrock
Hello,   I have a Supermicro server with an LSI Megaraid 320-2 that I am trying to install Debian Woody on. The standard boot images are not able to recognize the Megaraid SCSI controller so I am unable to install debian on it.   Through Google I found the Dell web pages that show some

Re: Adding LSI MegaRAID module

2003-06-20 Thread cisco
Hello Bill, Thanks for your reply!! I tried using the bf24 kernel, but the LSIMegaRAID 320-2 it is not recognized. Now I am trying to compile the latest MegaRAID Linux driver to have the new megaraid.o module and add it to the installation process, but I dont have a clear idea about wich need

Re: PERC3/DC or megaraid driver

2003-01-13 Thread Mark Sweeting
am missing something... Anyway, any thoughts would be great! Cheers, Mark On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:28:20PM +, Mark Sweeting wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've been trying to work out how to get the megaraid driver installed on > my machine. It all seems rather complicat

PERC3/DC or megaraid driver

2003-01-13 Thread Mark Sweeting
Hi everyone, I've been trying to work out how to get the megaraid driver installed on my machine. It all seems rather complicated, with lots of mention of custom boot floppies and so on. Is there an easy way? I have a set of 6 Woody CDs, and I can boot off the first CD, so I am wondering if

Re: Install floppies for MegaRAID: advice needed

2001-12-19 Thread Shaul Karl
> I need to install Debian on a Dell poweredge server with MegaRAID. I > need install media with a kernel with builtin support or to make my own. > > How does one go about making install floppies with one's own kernel? > You might want to read the installation Instructions.

Install floppies for MegaRAID: advice needed

2001-12-19 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I need to install Debian on a Dell poweredge server with MegaRAID. I need install media with a kernel with builtin support or to make my own. How does one go about making install floppies with one's own kernel? Thanks for any help Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Problems with HP megaraid scsi driver in 2.4.x

2001-10-30 Thread William De Cat
Hi, I am new to using lists etc.., so if anyone can point me in the right direction where to send this message, I would appreciate it very much... I am using the woody distribution and can't get the 2.4.10 kernel to recognise the logical volume on my megaraid. Everything works fine wit

AMI IDE MegaRAID install problem

2001-08-30 Thread Andrew Ward
I'm trying to get 2.2 r3 installed on my hardware raid0 setup, and I can't get the install disks to recognize my RAID controller (basically, I don't have a proper driver module for the 2.2.19pre17 kernel). I know I could get RH 7 to install, but I'd much rather have Debian... Anyone have any i

Re: megaraid

2001-05-15 Thread William Cooper
;>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 14/05/2001, 7:46:42 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding megaraid: > I'm trying to load Potato on an HP Netserver LH3, which has a symbios > controlle

Re: megaraid

2001-05-15 Thread tom
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 07:46:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to load Potato on an HP Netserver LH3, which has a symbios > controller, and a megaraid controller. Booting off the CD, after it > sees the megaraid controller, it locks. Now I know Linux runs on this,

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