 | | | Problems with SCSI support on Red Hat Work Station 3 Update 1 | Problems with SCSI support on Red Hat Work Station 3 Update 1 2004-02-03 - By Rick Stevens
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tomncc3 wrote:
> Stuart -
>
> Unfortunately, I reverted the box I installed RHWS 3 on back to Fedora,
> since that flavor of RH could detect the SCSI adapter on boot. I
> understand the suggestions you mentioned below, and have used variants
> of them on other occasions, such as to enable RHAS 2.1 to run on a SAN,
> from an HP blade.
>
> I will save your post so when I try RHWS on the server, again, I 'll see
> what happens. Thank you very much for your tech tips, I 'll tuck them
> away for a later date.
>
> This is not directed at you, but my main concern is /why/ would RH
> remove these modules from a standard installation? Certainly a lot of
> people are going to upgrade from Fedora and RH9 to RHWS 3, whom are
> running slightly older, but well known hardware, just to encounter
> issues. You should not have to take a step back on the installation
> when upgrading to an enterprise version of the operating system. I
> realize that Red Hat is striving for stability, and perhaps the older
> drivers could cause problems, as a guess, but the adapter I am using is
> pretty well known and I feel it should have its module available during
> installation. If it were an obscure adapter, that fell into the realm
> of the Beta Max VCR or something like that, I could understand and drive on.
Since you bought RHEL3WS, squawk this issue to Red Hat. They should pay
attention to you as you 're a paying customer now. The reason it was
backed out may be down to a copyright issue due to the nature of RHEL
being a "commercial " product.
> The SCSI adapter I am trying to use, I usually configure as a three disk
> RAID5 set for my root area, not as storage after the fact of the
> installation. This is why I want it available on installation. I
> really like Red Hat Linux, I think it 's a great operating system, and I
> am not trying to bash them, but I think they should at least give people
> the option of having the older modules around, in case they would like
> to use them during system installations.
>
> Thanks,
>
> TK
>
>
> Stuart Sears wrote:
> > On Sunday 01 February 2004 04:55, tomncc3 wrote:
> >
> > >How do you get SCSI support with Red Hat Work Station 3? This seems
> rather
> > > "odd " that the Enterprise version of the operating system couldn 't
> handle a
> > >fairly standard SCSI controller, where the other "free " versions
> could. I
> > >am looking through the docs to see what I might have done wrong, but I
> > >can 't see anything. Did RH drop support for this controller for the
> > >Enterprise version?
> >
> > no, but they have shifted a lot of kernel modules into a
> 'kernel-unsupported '
> > rpm. just install the one that matches your kernel
>
> Can you "modprobe " the device to get the driver to load? If so, and you
> want the card active at bootup, you MUST make sure the initrd image has
> the driver installed. Building a kernel (or installing one) will not
> force the driver to be loaded into the initrd image. To do this, two
> conditions must be met:
>
> 1) There must be an "alias scsi_hostadapter driver-name " in
> the /etc/modules.conf file
>
> 2a) You must have a filesystem from the SCSI drive in question
> in /etc/fstab that must be mounted at boot
>
> OR
>
> 2b) You must tell mkinitrd to force-load the driver by using the
> "--with=module-name " option.
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