SATA controller of HP ProLiant ML150 G2: cciss

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B.marc · Post by **B.marc** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:53 pm

Hi,

I want to install Gentoo on a HP ProLiant ML150 G2 (processor: Xeon), but the SATA controller gives me problems. I cannot find my two harddisks in /dev . Here is my lspci output:

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livecd ~ # lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation E7320 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation E7525/E7520/E7320 PCI Express Port A (rev 0c)
0000:00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation E7525/E7520/E7320 PCI Express Port A1 (rev 0c)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6300ESB 64-bit PCI-X Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB Universal Host Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB Universal Host Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.5 PIC: Intel Corporation 6300ESB I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 0a)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 6300ESB LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 6300ESB PATA Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6300ESB SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)
0000:03:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX6041 4-port SATA II PCI-X Controller (rev 07)
0000:04:04.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)

It looks like the SATA controller is recognized, but it is supported? I use the latest AMD64 universal cd.

My hardware vendor pointed me to this side for source code of driver: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=33072. After some search for cciss on the forum, I realized, that this modul is part of the installer kernel. But either it is to old to recognize the controller or I'm doing something wrong. Is there some kernel boot option I missed?

Thanks for any infos in advance.
Marc

cyrillic · Post by **cyrillic** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:27 pm

I think the driver for your Marvell SATA controller is still experimental, and not included on the Gentoo CD yet.

B.marc · Post by **B.marc** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:19 pm

cyrillic wrote:I think the driver for your Marvell SATA controller is still experimental, and not included on the Gentoo CD yet.

Hmm, OK. Do you perhaps know, when the next release of Gentoo will be (2006.0?)? ANd if by any chance the new driver will be part of it?

Marc

cyrillic · Post by **cyrillic** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:34 pm

The nice thing about Gentoo is that you don't need an official Gentoo CD to install it. Almost any LiveCD that has a new enough kernel to support your hardware will do the job.

... and no, I don't know any details about the next version of the Gentoo CD, sorry.

B.marc · Post by **B.marc** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:45 pm

Three notes:

1.) It seems that my vendor pointed me in the wrong direction. The cciss driver has nothing to do with this sata controller.

2.) In the newest kernel (2.6.15-gentoo-r4) the driver for the marvel chip is included (marked highly experimentel). Look in the scsi driver section for marvel. I use it and it seems to work. More tests will be done.

3.) If you do not like to swithc to the newest kernel (why?), there is a howto under this address: http://debian.catsanddogs.com/forum/ind ... ,35.0.html . It is for debian, but anyway. The important stuff is at the end (reply #12).

Thats it.
Marc

B.marc · Post by **B.marc** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:29 am

B.marc wrote:Three notes:

1.) It seems that my vendor pointed me in the wrong direction. The cciss driver has nothing to do with this sata controller.

2.) In the newest kernel (2.6.15-gentoo-r4) the driver for the marvel chip is included (marked highly experimentel). Look in the scsi driver section for marvel. I use it and it seems to work. More tests will be done.

3.) If you do not like to swithc to the newest kernel (why?), there is a howto under this address: http://debian.catsanddogs.com/forum/ind ... ,35.0.html . It is for debian, but anyway. The important stuff is at the end (reply #12).

Thats it.
Marc

Regarding point 3: sata_mv.ko of kernel 2.6.15 is not stable. So I go on with point 2.

Marc