Re: [Iprdd-commit] Mylex card detection and irdd driver

[Eric W. <er...@wi...>]

Brian:

Excellent news!  Thanks a bunch for your time and the response.

I'll dig up the driver and let you know how it goes.

Thanks again.


Cheers;

Eric


> Eric Wilson wrote:
>> Brian:
>>
>> Thanks for the response.
>>
>> The card is an IBM card:
>>
>> [root@martha ~]# lspci -v -s 03:03.0
>> 03:03.0 SCSI storage controller: Mylex Corporation AcceleRAID
>> 600/500/400/Sapphire support Device (rev 04)
>>         Subsystem: IBM Dual Channel PCI-X U320 SCSI Adapter
>>         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 7
>>         BIST result: 00
>>         Memory at dd200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
>>         Memory at df800000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=8M]
>>         Capabilities: [40] PCI-X non-bridge device
>>         Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+
>> Queue=0/0
>> Enable-
>>         Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 2
>>
>>
>> Let me as a stupid question first:  All the references I see for the
>> ipr
>> driver only speak of Linux on Power.  The xSeries uses a PowerRAID
>> card.
>> I realize this are two very different animals; one is a system
>> architecture, and the other is a marketing name for a SCSI controller,
>> but it's a bit confusing.
>>
>> So, Before for we go to much further, I should ask;  is this card only
>> for the POWER architecture, or will it work in the x86 arch?
>
> That card is an IBM System p / System i SCSI controller. It is only
> officially
> supported by IBM on System p and System i servers. That being said, it
> should still work on most x86 systems. The ipr driver is written to
> be portable to x86 and I have ran it on x86 a bit as well. However,
> it is an unsupported, and untested configuration.
>
>> Then, if it will work in an x86 server, there is no ipr kernel module
>> for
>> an 2.6 x86 kernel in the sourceforge source.  Where can I get it?
>
> The 2.6 ipr device driver is included in the mainstream kernel
> (kernel.org)
> and is also in the RHEL 5 kernel. It is possible that the kernel
> you are using does not have the ipr driver built by default on x86, but
> that
> should be an easy problem to solve.
>
> -Brian
>
>>
>> Thanks a bunch;
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Eric Wilson wrote:
>>>> Hey guys:
>>>>
>>>> Say hey to a new list member...
>>>>
>>>> I'm having a bit of a disconnect between a card's detection and the
>>>> driver that should load.
>>>>
>>>> I have a CentOS / RHEL v 5 box.  It appears to detect the card:
>>>>
>>>> 03:03.0 SCSI storage controller: Mylex Corporation AcceleRAID
>>>> 600/500/400/Sapphire support Device (rev 04)
>>> This particular chip was used by two different family of adapters.
>>> To verify which one you have, use lspci -v and look at the Subsystem:
>>> line. If that indicates it is an IBM controller, then you need to load
>>> the ipr device driver (ipr.ko). Otherwise, you probably need to load
>>> the DAC960 driver.
>>>
>>>> But I cant seem to see a driver loaded for it, nor can I access the
>>>> card
>>>> or any DASD attached.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I see an irdd driver for 2.4 kernels but none for 2.6.  What should I
>>>> see?
>>>>
>>>> I also downloaded and completed the irdutils, and they compile and
>>>> run
>>>> fine, but see no controller.
>>> They will only see a controller if the driver is loaded.
>>>
>>> -Brian
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any assistance would be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers;
>>>>
>>>> Eric
>>>>
>>>>
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