Re: [Xen-users] RAID card problem

[Yura Pismerov <y.pismerov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Problem solved. It turned out ACPI support was off in the kernel.  Oops...


Yura Pismerov wrote:
> Thanks for response. I don't have regular (non-RAID) controller so I
> can't verify whether it works or not.
> Also I was not able to find IOMMU option in the BIOS.
> Below is excerpt from dmesg of regular kernel shipped with Debian Etch 
> (2.6.15-1).
> When I boot XEN-enabled kernel (2.6.16) it  stops after the first 2
> lines and does not get to the probe phase.
> Same situation with Adaptec RAID card (aacraid).
> I tried non-PAE Xen and kernel - no difference at this point so I assume
> it has something to do with Xen.
> I am totally puzzled.
>
> megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.6 (Release Date: Mon Mar 7 00:01:03 EST 2005)
> megaraid: 2.20.4.6 (Release Date: Mon Mar 07 12:27:22 EST 2005)
> megaraid: probe new device 0x1000:0x1960:0x1000:0x0520: bus 10:slot 3:func 0
> megaraid: fw version:[1L37] bios version:[G119]
>
>
> Ernst Bachmann wrote:
>   
>> On Tuesday 09 May 2006 00:50, Yura Pismerov wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>>     I have a Quad Opteron machine (Tyan mobo) with 32GB RAM and I can't
>>> to get it to work with a PCI RAID card.
>>> I try it with Xen 3.0.2 (built from the source). I've already tried 2
>>> different cards (Adaptec 2120S and LSI Megaraid).
>>> In both cases the boot process stops once card driver is loaded. It does
>>> not attempt to load scsi_mod and probe the scsi bus.
>>> A non-Xen kernel works fine with those cards on the same hardware.
>>> Any ideas ?
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> I'm running a Quad Opteron (Dual-Core) with 16GB Ram on a tyan motherboard 
>> with xen 3.0.2. No troubles so far.
>>
>> Both the on-board LSI SCSI controller and an areca 24xSATA Raid6 controller 
>> work without problems.
>>
>> Do you have IOMMU enabled in the boards BIOS?
>>
>> /Ernst
>>
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