On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 17:59 +0100, Patrick wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 07:00 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > I have a lab in my office at my job where we are working to load FC6 on > > a series of older Compaq DL380 servers. Each of them has the old Compaq > > Integrated SMART array controller. This is a different controller from > > the SMART Array Controller I'm familiar with. > > > > Bottom Line, FC6 (as did FC5) is simply not seeing this controller at > > all. Does anyone have the secret incantation to make these run? > > > > I know these servers actually belong in a museum, but it's all we have > > at the moment. We don't want to invest any real $$ in them either > > because they really do belong in a museum and we're holding our funds > > for newer equipment. > > > > If not, I guess there's always EBay... > > If all else fails maybe you can try RHEL or CentOS. If the DL380 is not > supported out of the box on either distro (the DL380G4 is afaik) then > search for the SCSI controller driver on the RH website and make a > driver disk. > > Regards, > Patrick > > Before you go and replace the machine... ;) A. Post the output of lspci -v B. Boot with noacpi, post the output of lspci -v C. Boot with pci=noacpi, post the output of lspci -v. - Gilboa
