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[ILUG] New Dell server

[ILUG] New Dell server

Thomas Rooney tom at dreadserver.com
Thu Sep 6 17:00:17 IST 2007


Pete McEvoy wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:27:21PM +0100, Nick Murtagh wrote:
>   
>> Thomas Rooney wrote:
>>     
>>> I just got a new Dell Power Edge 840 and I just tried to install Ubuntu
>>> Feisty
>>> all went well till the time came to partition the hard drives, none
>>> where found.
>>>       
>> Is it one of these or similar?
>>
>>     $ cat /proc/scsi/mptsas/0
>>     ioc0: LSISAS1068, FwRev=00063200h, Ports=1, MaxQ=511
>>
>> There's a kernel bug that prevents the hardware RAID partitions
>> being discovered. I configured it as JBOD or whatever and the disks show
>> up, and then used software RAID. Doesn't hugely matter as it's not
>> a super duper RAID card or anything.
>>     
>
> Fwiw, I use debian on the same sort of machines without any major
> issues.
>
> cat /proc/scsi/mptsas/0
> ioc0: LSISAS1068, FwRev=000a3100h, Ports=1, MaxQ=286
>
> uname -a
> Linux numail 2.6.21-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Jul 13 15:05:54 UTC 2007 i686
> GNU/Linux
>
>   
Thanks lads. Im just messing around with the raid bios at the moment 
will get back
with the output of

cat /proc/scsi/mptsas/0

soon
Tom



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