Bug 37531
| Summary: | The installer cannot format and install RH 7.1 using AMI Megaraid 1600 (493) controller. Installs fine on IDE-drive | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <oliver.g.olsen> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | christophe.lesur, jappe, rafael, teg |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-05-15 18:06:56 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Need Real Name
2001-04-25 06:47:18 UTC
I have exactly the same problem using an AMI MEGARAID 493 (Elite 1600) controleur with 64Mb onboard and RAID1 2x9Go. In kernel 2.4.1, 2.4.2 and 2.4.3, the MEGARAID driver same to be broken. All is perfect with Redhat 7.0 and 2.2 kernel. Same problem with 128Mb onboard "RAID 5" 4x18Gb. 2.2.x --> OK 2.4.x --> sdb: unknown partition table AMI help us to find what's wrong :
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Brian Highers [BrianH]
> Envoyi : vendredi 27 avril 2001 01:24
> @ : 'Loic.Breat'
> Cc : Peter Jarrett; Atul Mukker.; Venkatesh Ramamurthy
> Objet : RE: megaraid driver doesn't work with 2.4.x kernels
>
>
> Enclosed is a newer FW G158. The issue that you reported as
> well as some
> of the other posts is a known problem with FW L148. Please
> upgrade to this
> newer firmware and this should address your issues.
>
> Thanks
> BrianH
Using the new MEGARAID FIRMWARE G158 solve the problem.
I can sent the firmware by mail if someone want it.
Regards from France, Chris.
The last firmware version G158 is not available in the web http://www.megatrends.com/ (I can only find C158,-311 L148-311,H132-307) Where can I get the last version for my card Ami Elite 1600? How can I install the firmware? (There is no information about this neather) Do I need windows to do this? I hope to get information soon, this production machine needs to be in production as soon as possible and i can not use a 2.2.x kernel for this (Files > 2GB) Sincerely Rafael Martinez I don't know when AMI will release a fixed firmware. However, the Red Hat Linux 2.2.19 kernel does support files > 2 Gb. Standard kernel, or just the enterprise one? It used to be that only the enterprise kernel had LFS patches I used C158 from AMI's site and it appears to have fixed it - at least enough to complete the install. Was G158 a typo? No, i really have a G158. This is the release notes from G158 :
AMI MegaRAID Firmware Image Release
OEM Name: AMI
Controllers Supported: 475/493/471/494/503/463/475LC
Engineering Release date: 04/13/2001
Released by: Basavaraj / Chayan
New Release Version: G158
BIOS Version: 3.11
Ctrl+M Version: 5.20
WebBIOS Version: 1.38
Boot ROM Version: 1.2.7 (AMI specific)
Qlogic 12160 F/w version: 11.12.130 (11:32 Apr 02, 2001)
Previous Official Release: F158/3.11/5.20/1.38
Controllers Supported:
======================
Series 463 = MegaRAID Express 550
Series 471 = MegaRAID Enterprise 1600
Series 475 = MegaRAID Express 500
Series 475LC = MegaRAID Express 500LC
Series 493 = MegaRAID Elite 1600
Series 494 = MegaRAID Elite 1650
Series 503 = MegaRAID Enterprise 1700
Firmware Changes
================
Changes in G158 (based on F158 below)
1. QLogic firmware changed from 11.12.13 to 11.12.130
NEC471PR010
2. From Russel Foster:
Here is the updated bbu493 code which has the period in between
monitoring
cycles extended. This should eliminate the recurrent messages.
NEC471021
3. Recovery Sequence:
When Medium Error occurs on Read, the RAID F/W recovers the data from
other
disks and fires a WRITE_VERIFY command. Due to a bug, it was issuing
WRITE_VERIFY only if the channel is a fibre channel. It is now fixed to
issue WRITE_VEIFIFY to scsi channels too.
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It seems that with the G158 firmware, we have many "READ ERRORS" problem on the LOGICAL Drive :((((((( We will try the C158 firmware soon. bouuuuu.... All appears to be ok with FIRMWARE C158. no more I/O Errors. Chris. AMI recommends everybody who uses the "148" firmware to immediately upgrade to a 158 version, the problems are indeed purely firmware based. Further confirmation... Yes, I had the same problem trying to install RH 7.1 onto my system which is using the Elite 1600 RAID card as its sole disk controller. Installation would complain that it couldn't figure out the "unknown partition table" and exited. Following advice found here, I downloaded the C158 firmware upgrade from the download page at http://www.megaraid.com, performed the upgrade (which was a little tricky loading on a floppy along with the system files required for booting -- I dumped the readme.txt file and "drivespace.sys" [I think it was or some similarly named thing]), and the 7.1 release installed just fine from the CDs. -- Fred P. I'd like to close this as "NOTOURBUG", but that doesn't exist -> "NOTABUG" |