PCI 4-Channel Ultra3 SCSI RAID Adapter on IBM Pseries 620

ulrichenslin · n00b Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 1

I have a IBM Pseries 620 with a Type 4-X, PCI 4-Channel Ultra3 SCSI RAID Adapter (FC 2498) (IBM code 4-x). I can boot Gentoo on 2006.1 PPC, but I don't see this card under iprconfig. I don't know what module to load for it.

Under OpenSuse 10.1 the raid card is not detected, and show in the PCI diagnostics as a Serveraid 4H card. The PCI diagnostics also showed a <access denied> in the extension tag.

Can any one tell me what driver I should be loading, or what the true identity of the card is under Linux. I found some posts that showed I should be using the 'ips' module driver, but this is not found in OpenSuse PPC or Gentoo PPC and IBM's website only has x86 driver for the Serveraid 4H card.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you for your time.

All the best
Ulrich
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linuxtuxhellsinki · l33t Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 700 Location: Hellsinki

Janne Pikkarainen · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:32 am Post subject:

For me ServeRAID 4M has been working fine for years with IBM xSeries 330, and even earlier with IBM NetFinity. :-)

But that's with x86 hardware. Anyway, try to enable in kernel make menuconfig -> Device Drivers -> SCSI device support -> SCSI low-level drivers -> IBM ServeRAID support
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