Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 230214
[RHEL4.5 Beta] Installer cannot detect disks on Promise stex adapter
Last modified: 2009-06-19 11:26:41 EDT
Description of problem: Installer cannot detect disks connected to Promise SuperTrak EX series adapter (EX4350, EX8350, etc.) driven by stex.ko. - modules.cgz and pci.ids in initrd.img of the installer don't contain stex.ko and entries for the stex adapters, respectively. On the other hand, kernel package contains the driver and hwdata package contains proper pci.ids file. - anaconda/loader2/module-info doesn't have an entry for "stex". So it looks this is a problem of anaconda or installer image. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-48.EL anaconda-10.1.1.62-1 hwdata-0.146.24.EL-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to install to the disks connected to Promise EX4350 or EX8350 2. 3. Actual results: Installation fails due to the absense of installable disk drive Expected results: Disks should be detected Additional info: # grep 8350 /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids 8350 80333 [SuperTrak EX8350/EX16350], 80331 [SuperTrak EX8300/EX16300] # grep 8350 /lib/modules/2.6.9-48.EL/modules.pcimap stex 0x0000105a 0x00008350 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0 # ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.9-48.EL/kernel/drivers/scsi/stex.ko -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 28072 Feb 13 12:39 /lib/modules/2.6.9-48.EL/kernel/drivers/scsi/stex.ko # modinfo /lib/modules/2.6.9-48.EL/kernel/drivers/scsi/stex.ko filename: /lib/modules/2.6.9-48.EL/kernel/drivers/scsi/stex.ko version: 3.0.0.1 338F79082A7D490A2B57033 license: GPL description: Promise Technology SuperTrak EX Controllers author: Ed Lin alias: pci:v0000105Ad00008650sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v0000105Ad00008302sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v0000105Ad00008301sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v0000105Ad00004302sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v0000105Ad00004301sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v0000105Ad0000F350sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v0000105Ad0000C350sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v0000105Ad00008350sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: scsi_mod vermagic: 2.6.9-48.EL gcc-3.4 # zcat isolinux/initrd.img > initrd # mount initrd /mnt/0 # zcat /mnt/0/modules/modules.cgz |cpio -t|grep stex 15475 blocks # grep 8350 /mnt/0/modules/pci.ids # RHEL5 anaconda contains the following entry in module-info: stex scsi_hostadapter "Promise SuperTrak EX" and the installer can detect the device.
*** Bug 234229 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The decision in the RHEL meeting was to commit the patch to CVS and include it in 4.5 *ONLY* if we have to respin anaconda prior to 4.5 GA. Using driver disks would be the workaround until it would come out in 4.6
anaconda has not been respun. moving to 4.6 so this is not closed.
Requesting SEG to create driver disk based off 5.1 kernel and for Engineering to commit to including anaconda support in 4.6.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0215.html