Re: IBM ServeRAID 6i compatability

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 11:00, Stephen Kirkpatrick wrote:
> Has anyone successfully installed 7.3 on a machine with IBM's ServeRAID 
> 6i adapter?  During installation, I am getting a message "No hard drives 
> have been found.  You may need to manually choose device drivers for the 
> installation to succeed. ..."
> 
> Well, I did choose the ips (ServeRAID) driver from the driver list.  
> However, the installer still did not see my logical drive.  Is there any 
> way to provide an updated driver during installation or is there some 
> trick anyone knows to get the installation program to see my logical drive?
> 
> I'm sure you are wondering if I have done the obvious like creating a 
> logical drive with my raid array - and yes I have done that.
> 
> I have installed 7.3 on several IBM xServers with the 5i raid controller 
> without any problems.  I really can't go with RHL 9 due to an 
> incompatability with some third party software we use.  Any insight 
> would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Stephen Kirkpatrick

I haven't done it personally but this from IBM may help.
Couple of README.txt links in there seem to apply


ugly URL. watch the line wrapping
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=6i&uid=psg1MIGR-39729&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en

looks like they have a driver disk for the install

dd the appropriate img to a floppy & 
linux dd

at the install prompt.


-- 
Tony Placilla, RHCT


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