RE: [TCLUG:6261] Compaq Proliant 1000 and linux

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

oh.. I almost forgot.. I am working on a debian boot-disk that supports all of
the supported SMART controlers.. (smart1 and smart2)

On 04-May-99 Eric Gjerde wrote:
> Ok- I acquired a compaq proliant 1000 server. quick rundown- it has 7? EISA
> slots, I popped in a pentium overdrive chip, has 128MB of parity ram. it has
> an onboard fast scsi-2 controller (NCR 5710 i believe? not a 5380, sadly) and
> I have the compaq smart-2/E scsi array controller (EISA), along with an
> adaptec dual-channel 2740 EISA, and a DPT PM2122 EISA (dpt smartcache III
> EISA scsi controller). also has a compaq netelligent 10base-t EISA ethernet
> card (which is theoretically supported by the tlan.o module)
> 
> Now here's my problem... Redhat 6.0 detects the 2740, which currently only
> holds an external dat drive.  according to all the info i can find, rh6 is
> supposed to have support for the smart-2/E and the smart-2/P (pci) raid
> controllers. this is correlated by the option in the boot disk for the PCI
> raid controller, but it does not detect the EISA controller that I have
> (proliant 1000 does not have PCI.) this is quite frustrating because I have
> 14 gigs of raid 5 array on it, which I would love to utilize, and the onboard
> controller (which is the best boot controller) has a 2 gig drive and an 8x
> cdrom. it doesn't see the onboard controller, oddly, even if I format the
> drive as msdos and boot the install kernel image and initrd with loadlin (I
> was hoping the bios would kick in and perhaps somehow let it see it. grasping
> at straws, I know.)
> 
> Now here's another angle- the DPT PM2122 smartcache III has some sort of IDE
> translation mode, which I could possibly use; but perusing the DPT web site
> shows that they have linux support for smartcache IV and smartraid IV. so I'm
> surprised it doesn't see it, seeing as that they seem to support linux to a
> certain extent, to where the code could be there.
> 
> Ack. what a mess. the worst part, I am currently using NT4 because nothing
> else will install or install AND use the hardware I have in there... I tried
> linux, freebsd, openbsd, netware 4.11 (which is evil!) and I would love to
> blow this bloated OS off what would otherwise be a great server box. 
> 
> Anyone who has any suggestions or help will be greatly appreciated. If you
> can find some sort of working solution, I'll donate a 1gig scsi drive.
> nothing special, but this is driving me so crazy that I'll resort to bribing.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Eric

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E-Mail: Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>
Date: 03-Jun-99
Time: 10:50:12

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