Compaq Integrated SMART Array Controller

[Gilboa Davara]

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