CentOS7

[TrevorH]

I think it stands a fairly good chance of working as long as the processor is 64 bit (and a G5 should be)

[avij]

For those wondering if their hardware is compatible, download the RHEL7 beta and try it out. Obviously this method requires a spare server on which the beta can be installed.

[Klaus69]

thanks for your advice. Could anyone provide a link to the live 7 beta iso?

Is that the "boot" iso from the link above?

[avij]

There is no RHEL "Live" media (either for 7 or for any of the previous releases). The boot.iso is for doing installs over network (you'll need to tell it to fetch the packages from http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/beta/7/x86_64/os/ ), the DVD image can be used for offline installs. I would download the DVD image and use that.

[Klaus69]

Hi,

i followed your hint and installed the Beta. Now i can confirm that my DL380G5 works with RHEL 7.

Unfortunally i am not able to get my smart array P400 to work. I tried to install kmod-cciss-4.6.28-23.rhel6u1.x86_64 ( the needed 3 additional files where there ) or kmod-hpsa-3.4.0_1_RH1-1.el6_4.x86_64 driver but both ended with unspecified error.

In the next step i tried a usb hdd for installation and this worked fine .

[TrevorH]

You can't use el6 kmod packages on an el7 system. I checked my el7 and it already has hpsa.ko but the bad news is that it doesn't look like it supports the P400i. The one I have is PCI vendor:device id 103c:3230 and those don't appear in the list given by modinfo hpsa. Maybe ELRepo wil package cciss later once el7 goes GA...

[Klaus69]

Thanks for the info. Then i will wait at least a while. Until then i can test whith the external drive.

[TrevorH]

I did notice that the output of modinfo hpsa says it takes a parameter

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hpsa_allow_any:Allow hpsa driver to access unknown HP Smart Array hardware (int)

You might try `modprobe -r hpsa` then `modprobe hpsa hpsa_allow_any=1` (or maybe that should be :1 not =1)

[Klaus69]

i will do this next week and post the result here.

[Klaus69]

hmm, could not resist and bootet again to check,

modprobe -r hpsa gives me no output
modprobe hpsa hpsa hpsa_allow_any:1 gives me FATAL Module hpsa not found

lspci -vvvv gives me:

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06:00.0 RAID bus controller: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array Controller (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company P400 SAS Controller
	Physical Slot: 1
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
	Region 0: Memory at fde00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
	Region 2: I/O ports at 4000 [size=256]
	Region 3: Memory at fddf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	[virtual] Expansion ROM at d0000000 [disabled] [size=256K]
	Capabilities: [b0] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
		DevCap:	MaxPayload 512 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s unlimited, L1 unlimited
			ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE- FLReset-
		DevCtl:	Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal+ Fatal+ Unsupported-
			RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
			MaxPayload 256 bytes, MaxReadReq 4096 bytes
		DevSta:	CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend-
		LnkCap:	Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x8, ASPM L0s, Latency L0 <2us, L1 unlimited
			ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
		LnkCtl:	ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk-
			ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
		LnkSta:	Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x4, TrErr- Train- SlotClk- DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
	Capabilities: [d4] MSI-X: Enable- Count=4 Masked-
		Vector table: BAR=0 offset=000fe000
		PBA: BAR=0 offset=000ff000
	Capabilities: [e0] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
	Capabilities: [ec] Vital Product Data
pcilib: sysfs_read_vpd: read failed: Connection timed out
		Not readable
	Capabilities: [100 v1] Power Budgeting <?>

Seems to be this one:
vendor: 103c ("Hewlett-Packard Company"), device: 3230 ("Smart Array Controller"), subvendor: 103c, subdevice: 3234 ("P400 SAS Controller")