Fred Nussbaum wrote:
Hi,
I try to install SuSe 9.x professional on my Intel
SE7520JR2 motherboard and until now fail to do so. The
motherboard has two I/O contollers: a ICH5R controller
for two (Seagate) SATA disks and a LSI 53C1010
controller for the two (Maxtor U320) SCSI disks. Both
controllers claim to support RAID 1. I intend to
install Linux on the SCSI disks and do a software
mirroring for SuSe (and Fedora Core 3) as this (still)
works fine since RedHat 6.2.
The problem (I think) I face is with the SCSI disks.
They are not found by the SuSE installer, eventhough
the disks are seen by the BIOS and the configuration
utility for the LSI controller. The installer 'hangs'
after displaying 'Looking for info file ...'. The only
thing that can be done then is a hard reset. The same
applies to Fedora Core 3 (after loading the mptbase
and mptscsih driver) What settings do I need for the BIOS and/or the LSI
configuration utility to be able to use the disks and
install (both) O.S.('s)?
I hope someone has a positive installation experience
with this hardware.
I've run into problems with the new U320 LSI controllers. I have a Dell PowerEdge 1750 I tried throwing FreeBSD on, but the controller really is a pass-through device to a back-end drive interface. In other words, the controller shows up the same, whether it's SCSI/RAID/FC-AL/whatever. FreeBSD tried initializing the controller as a RAID device, even though we don't have the RAID daughter card. I got pretty much the same errors that you're seeing, with the controller barfing and the kernel panicing after a few minutes of probing.
After lots of head-banging, I did manage to get FreeBSD to boot, but only after I popped out all the drives except the first one. In the end, I ended up throwing Fedora Core 2 on it, which works fine. I guess my suggestion is to make sure you're using the v2.6 kernel, and to try tweaking your SCSI settings in the kernel. You might try Fedora or another distro if you can't get SuSE working.
-- -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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