From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) Description of problem: When I run installation program by using CD1, it failed to detect logical drive (RAID1) on PERC3/SC (AMI MegaRaid 475). This happens when I tried to partition the harddrive, and the error saying "..no valid device..." How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Connect 2 HDD to AMI MegaRAID 475, create RAID1 2.Insert CD1 to CD-ROM drive and reboot system 3.Follow the instruction on screen Actual Results: Unable to complete installation Expected Results: Should be able to see the logical volume during installation. Additional info:
Created attachment 25679 [details] Syslog file
What server and BIOS level? Looks like IRQs aren't getting routed properly, and the first obvious symptom is a lack of disk I/O. usb.c: registered new driver hub PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0f.2 IRQ routing conflict for 00:0f.2, have irq 10, want irq 5 eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:02.0 IRQ routing conflict for 00:02.0, have irq 11, want irq 9 megaraid: v1.17a (Release Date: Fri Jul 13 18:44:01 EDT 2001) PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 01:04.0 IRQ routing conflict for 01:04.0, have irq 5, want irq 10
I tested on two servers (PE1300, PE1400), the results are the same. Both servers have the lastest BIOS. However, the installation process works very well with PERC3/DC, PERC2/DC.
I was able to install Fairfax Beta 2 on this controller (same firmware and config) successfully.
This defect is considered SHOULD-FIX for Fairfax.
nothing with regard to this controller changed in anaconda; moving to kernel.
I could install it on my Dell PERC3 just fine too, I'll check asap which exact model it is (it has 128Mb ram)
Created attachment 25912 [details] dmesg of sys after installing Fairfax Beta3, added the card, and insmod megaraid
After installing the megaraid driver, it detects the logical volume but it was not given a device name (/dev/sdb). Below is the log message when the megaraid driver is installed. megaraid: v1.17a (Release Date: Fri Jul 13 18:44:01 EDT 2001) megaraid: found 0x101e:0x1960:idx 0:bus 1:slot 6:func 0 scsi3 : Found a MegaRAID controller at 0xf89e2000, IRQ: 20 scsi3 : Enabling 64 bit support megaraid: [1.62:3.17] detected 1 logical drives megaraid: channel[1] is raid.
I tried this card (perc3/sc) in a 6450 with todays tree. Anaconda sees the card, but hangs loading the driver.
There is an issue with installing onto PE6450 (bugzilla # 50775). Try the work around suggested there.
AMI reproduced the problem, and fixed it. Go into controller setup during POST, and press Alt-F to reset to factory defaults. This somehow clears bad state in NVRAM. Dell has sent another failing card to AMI to troubleshoot exactly why it fails for future fixes. I'm marking this as closed (from RH's perspective, it's NOTABUG.)