Adaptec 2400A information

Swell° · n00b Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 69

Hi,

I'm using gs-sources, and i want to know what i have to build into kernel and modules to support this card?

Thanks!

taskara · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:26 pm Post subject:

isn't it a silicon image chipset?

or is it hardware raid controlled?

perhaps you can ask adaptec, although I'm sure I've seen someone using it around here.. search for adaptec 2400a
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Swell° · n00b Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 69

Some people wrote on this forum that there card is working with linux, but the don't give the things to include in a 2.4 Kernel

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Swell° · n00b Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 69

yes it is compiled in, but when i try to boot it detects the card but it freeze...

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Swell° · n00b Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 69

The problem is, when i use the genkernel with everything it works,

but when i compile it with --menuconfig, it detects the card but the dpti that normally comes after doesn't appear...

BTW what is LKLM?

taskara · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:43 pm Post subject:

linux kernel volume management isn't it?

for managing mount points over multiple drives..
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Swell° · n00b Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 69

It stills doesn't work with LVM...

Here is an output of dmesg when it works:

taskara · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:37 am Post subject:

taken out acpi and apic?
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Swell° · n00b Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 69

I removed acpi from kernel, because the raid array or the controller goes offline sometimes, and i don't know what is this coming from...

taskara · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:03 pm Post subject:

hmmm.. well the two kernels configure it on different IRQ

2.4 detects it on irq 17, where as 2.6 detects it on irq 11

so perhaps you DO need acpi ?

or perhaps you need to turn acpi OFF in the bios

or perhaps set the IRQ assignments to manual instead of auto?
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Swell° · n00b Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 69

Ok, i'll try that tomorrow!

Thx!

taskara · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:06 am Post subject:

let us know how you go..
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Swell° · n00b Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 69

With ACPI it works!

Just need to build into kernel ACPI and Adaptec I2O Raid Support!

The question now is how can i check my disk array with that?

Adaptec is only giving binaries tools for redhat9

Swell° · n00b Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 69

well in facts it half works...

it works for a time and then the raid array can't be accessed anymore :cry:

when it works if i do

taskara · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:06 am Post subject:

hmm I am not sure.. you could try loading the adaptec as a module and loading it?

perhaps contact adaptec and see what they say? sorry I can't think of much more to help

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EDDI · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 1:32 pm Post subject:

Exact that is the problem that prevents me from installing gentoo
on one server. When this server was bought, he ran windows;
Now he runs Redhat, only because of the fu... driver support from adaptec (binaries only for the management tool).

I can't recommend this controller for gentoo.
If you have the money, purchase a 3ware 7506-4 or greater.
It runs fine.

see http://edcc.dyndns.org/phpsysinfo/

so far from me

sunwukong · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 9:49 pm Post subject:

haven · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 11:57 am Post subject:

For anyone else who didnt spot this straight away you sometimes need to uncheck the "Select only drivers expected to compile cleanly* option, in Code maturity level options, for the adapted i2o driver to show. This is certainly the case in gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.5sr

A quick question if I may, I've just bought a 2400A RAID card and I'm not sure which device I am supposed to be mounting from. Having looked through all the device files there are multiple options that I could choose i.e.

/dev/sd/c1b0t0u0p(1-4)
/dev/rd//c0d0p(1-4)
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0 ...
/dev/sda(1-4)

So many options and no since they all mount fine I'm not sure which I should be using - also some confusion when booting from the 2004.1 install cd. The files in /dev/ seem to change once you chroot into your new system. I'm just wondering why this is but the main question is which device should I be using to refer to the Adaptec 2400A since there are multiple options.

Thanks in advance.

haven · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 5:12 pm Post subject:

Answered my own question in the end - used /dev/sda for mountings.

Also tried a few other kernels before resorting to the previous posters advice and running 2.6.3. Kernels I tried that do NOT work with this driver are:
linux-2.6.5-aa5
linux-2.6.7-rc2
linux-2.6.5-gentoo

Although 2.6.3-rc2 works fine I get horribly hdparm scores so I'm guessing it still needs some work ...

Here's my scores: