From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021227 Description of problem: Fresh install of RedHat 9 and I'm not able to install to the RAID on the SX6000. Going to the console on F2, running lsmod shows i2o_block and i2o_core, but not i2o_pci. Trying to insmod i2o_pci doesn't work. I also tried to rmmod the two that were installed and insmod i2o_pci first, but then I couldn't get any of them to insmod. I have tried with both a bios setting of Other and Linux. I installed to another drive connected to the onboard IDE controller, and was able to fdisk the RAID under /dev/i2o/hda. Even after that, tried a fresh install and the RAID does not show up in Disk Druid. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to install RH 9 on a RAID controlled by a SX6000 2. 3. Expected Results: Able to install to the RAID Additional info:
You can use the driver provided by Promise for RH9. it creates a "disk driver" that you can load with "linux dd" at install boot prompt. But I couldn't compile an up to date kernel : the I2O fails !
I did finally get the updated driver from Promise. And, as you, I can't use the I2O driver in the updated kernel. I did manage to compile their source driver, but it gave me some dependancy errors, but I manually installed it, mkinitrd, and it has passed all the test I've tried on it. I can tell you, after dealing with Promises (lack of) tech support, this is the *last* product of theirs I buy...
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