Bug 54644

Summary: no RH7.1 installation on ICP Vortex RAID controller
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Olaf Zaplinski <oz>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Olaf Zaplinski 2001-10-15 12:11:09 UTC
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Description of problem:
Installation on a SCSI disk attached to a ICP Vortex RAID controller fails

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
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Actual Results:  install prog does not find /dev/[sh]da

Additional info:

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-10-15 19:55:51 UTC
Have you used this controller with previous versions of Red Hat Linux?  This
sounds like more of a kernel issue than an installer issue, though.

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-10-15 20:43:00 UTC
Ok, I tracked down an ICP Vortex controller in the test lab, and I think I might
know what the problem is.  Did you create a logical volume in the Vortex's setup
utility?  If you don't, then the drive is essentially non-existent as a volume
as far as the kernel is concerned.  

I was able to reproduce your problem by hooking up a drive that was not
previously arranged in a RAID configuration...the installer couldn't identify
it.  After using the firmware config tool to create a logical volume on the
disk, the installer ran perfectly.  Does this solve the problem?

Comment 3 Olaf Zaplinski 2001-10-16 07:18:56 UTC
Well, I have a logical disk; previously Win2K was installed, and it ran fine.

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2001-10-16 19:40:14 UTC
Hmm...can you try using the firmware to remove that logical volume and make a
completely new one?  I know that shouldn't make a difference, but I can't think
of any other reason why the kernel shouldn't see the drive.

If that doesn't work, can you press <Ctrl><Alt><F2> while in the installer
(before it crashes).  Then run the command 'cat /proc/scsi/gdth/0' and see what
the results are.

Comment 5 Olaf Zaplinski 2001-10-17 08:36:02 UTC
Please close this ticket - a co-worker installed SuSE on that box and it works,
so I cannot do any test anymore.