Re: IBM ServeRAID 6i compatability

It looks like our hardware vendor sold us a ServeRAID adapter (6i) that 
is incompatible with our machine type - 8647 (xSeries 225).  It looks as 
if we will be getting a 4LX ServeRAID adapter, which is compatible with 
the 8647 machine type.  Thanks for the link though, it may be useful in 
the future if we get a system compatible with the 6i.

SK

Anthony J Placilla wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 11:00, Stephen Kirkpatrick wrote:
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>>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. ..."
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>>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?
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>>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.
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>>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
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>I haven't done it personally but this from IBM may help.
>Couple of README.txt links in there seem to apply
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>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
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>looks like they have a driver disk for the install
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>dd the appropriate img to a floppy & 
>linux dd
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>at the install prompt.
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