Bug 54547

Summary:	SCSI drives not attached to QLogic ISP1020 with LiveCD 1.4rc1-test4
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Paul Berbe <stazz>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers <livecd>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	alpha
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Alpha
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Paul Berbe 2004-06-20 12:31:12 UTC

Forum Thread trying to resolve this issue:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=187415

Reproduction:
Always, just boot from the LiveCD.


I am installing Gentoo on a DEC AlphaServer 4100, using LiveCD 1.4rc1-test4.
SCSI cd-rom (dka500) works fine. (/dev/sr0)

2-disk RAID1 (dra0) and 5-disk RAID5 (dra1) have no entries in /dev (no sd* entries)

/dev/scsi contains
  host1

Results from lsmod:
  sym53c8xx: used by 1
  qlogicisp: (unsued)
(unloading/relaoding qlogicisp changes nothing)

Info from dmesg:
  qlogicisp : new isp1020 revision ID (5)
  scsi0: QLogic ISP1020 SCSI on PCI bus 01 device 10 irq 40 I/) base 0x200008400
  sym0: <810> rev 0x2 on pci bus 1 device 1 function 0 irq 56
  sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, SE, parity checking
  sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
  scsi1: sym-2.1.17a
    Vendor: DEC (...)
    Type:   CD-ROM (...)
  Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1 channel 0, id 5, lun 0
  sym0:5: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s ST (100.0 ns, offset 0)
  sr0: scsi-1 drive

It seems (to a noob) that while the controller card (qlogicisp) is detected and the driver loaded, the disks just don't appear.

Comment 1 Paul Berbe 2004-06-21 00:02:47 UTC

I just tried the experimental LiveCDs (gentoo-alpha-20040225 and gentoo-alpha-2004.0-20040313).  The problem remains, but the modprobe/lsmod results are different, as it looks like the drivers are now compiled into the kernel instead of being modules.

Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-21 05:02:05 UTC

Please use the CD located in the /experimental/alpha/livecd/ directory on your local Gentoo mirror, as it is much newer and probably includes lots of fixes since the 1.4 release.

I am adding alpha@gentoo.org to the CC list, so they are aware of the problem and can research it.

Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-21 05:13:19 UTC

Ignore my comment... ;]

Alpha guys... any ideas?

Comment 4 Paul Berbe 2004-07-04 20:36:31 UTC

I just had some free time to poke around at this... I discovered that the HDs actaully aren't attached to the QLogic card - in fact, nothing is!  So, Gentoo is actually doing things correctly.  The HDs are actually connected to a Mylex DAC960LB, but there are no modules for this controller on the LiveCD.

All I need to get past this now is a way to get the Mylex driver for the install...  Is this possible?

Comment 5 Jay Maynard (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-04 20:46:57 UTC

The 1.4-test1 LiveCD has the DAC960 driver. Unfortunately, the later LiveCDs I made don't have it.

The 2004.2 LiveCD will have it, as well as the BSD disklabel support 1.4-test1 doesn't.

Comment 6 Paul Berbe 2004-07-06 19:07:11 UTC

Hmmm.  There is indeed DAC960 on the 1.4-test1 LiveCD.  However, during the startup process (just after it tells you what boot options are available), it tries to find the DAC960, and gets a seg fault. This is before things appear in dmesg, so I can't easily replicate the exact context or text here.

Once the boot is completed, lsmod show the DAC960 as present but "(initializing)"... I left it a while, and it never finished initializing.

What can I do?