Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 75335
(CPQARRAY)cpqarray module does not work with Smart-2/E controller
Last modified: 2008-08-01 12:22:52 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0; Q312461) Description of problem: During installation, the cpqarray module appears to load successfully, but the array is not available when partitioning. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot CDROM 2.Enter "linux text mem=exactmap mem=640K@0 mem=143M@1M" at boot: prompt (system has 144 megs on EISA riser) 3.When prompted with "no available hard drives...", add device, select cpqarray module from list and enter "eisa=0x1000"as parameter (array card is in slot 1) 4.Module appears in list of drivers loaded, continue with install 5.At partitioning step, select fdisk or DiskDruid Actual Results: Installation dies with a no hard disks error Expected Results: Disk array should be available for partitioning Additional info: This bug has existing since kernel 2.4.9-34 in RH7.2. Redhat 7.2 installed with no problems, but an upgraded kernel would not load cpqarry. Version 7.3 installation also fails because of the same problem loading cpqarray. I'll be happy to test any proposed fixes.
Are there any messages on tty4 about the loading of the cpqarray driver?
tty4 shows only this line regarding cpqarray: <4>Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.22) tty3 shows this: *inserted /tmp/cpqarray *load module set done tty2 doing an lsmod reports: cpqarray 21412 0 (unused) As I reported in Bug 70311, a successful boot under Redhat7.2 originally reported this dmesg: Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.5) Found 1 controller(s) cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (SMART-2/E) cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=8217120 cpqarray ida/c0d1: blksz=512 nr_blks=8217120 Partition check: ida/c0d0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 > ida/c0d1: p1 Obviously, I had more than one array defined at the time I copied this. Likewise, Mandrake 8.2 (which is running on the box now) reports this dmesg: Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.5) Found 1 controller(s) cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (SMART-2/E) cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=12321600 Partition check: /dev/ida/c0d0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 > As you can see, I now only have one array defined, but the idea is the same. What's curious to me is the cpqarray version reported by the Redhat8 install.
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/
There's a bug in cpqarray starting around kernel 2.4.9 that affects EISA Smart controllers, but not PCI ones. a patch for 2.4 kernels is at http://www.cpqlinux.com/cpqarray-eisa.html This appears to be fixed in 2.6 kernels, at least by 2.6.9. FC3 installs fine.