On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 10:23:07AM -0500, John Hoffoss wrote: > The short of it is I attempted installing > Gentoo Linux on a [non-Compaq] PC with a Compaq Smart-2SL SCSI > controller (4x18.2 GB in RAID0 array, created prior to beginning > installation in Windows using Compaq's utility). I did modprobe sr_mod, > sd_mod, cpqarray. After doing this, there are no /dev/sd* devices > listed, but I get /dev/ida/c0d0 and /dev/rd/0. When I fdisk > /dev/ida/c0d0, it gives me "you will not be able to write the partition > table", then "Unable to read /dev/ida/c0d0" and exits. fdisk /dev/rd/* > (contains rd0-rd15 and initrd) lets me into fdisk, tells me sector size > is 1024, not 512 (I think it's actually 128, maybe 512 though) and shows > the geometry as 1 head, 22000 sectors, 1 cylinder, so if I create one > partition, it ends up being the full amount, since there is only one > cylinder. If this doesn't work, I'm just scrapping it and I'll throw the > RAID stuff in a windows box, but I'd like to utilize it here if I can. > So if anyone can help, I'd appreciate it.-John I'm not sure what a Compaq Smart-2SL is and I haven't yet tried Gentoo, but I did once put together some notes on how to install Debian on a Compaq ProLiant 1500 (has SMART array controller, P/N 181132) that might be of some, possibly little, help: http://www.joelschneider.net/compaq_proliant_1500_debian_potato.html When setting up the ProLiant, I found Richard Black's "Compaq Servers and Linux: site to be an excellent resource: http://www.geocities.com/rlcomp_1999/ Compaq's web site also tends to be pretty useful: http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/linux/optionsmatrix_old.html Based on the above options matrix from Compaq's site, it looks like the Smart-2SL controller is supported by the cpqarray driver (same as the SMART controller in my ProLiant). That driver has its own major device numbers reserved in the linux kernel: /dev/ida/c0d0, etc. -- Joel Schneider Jazz - jazz88fm.com joel at joelschneider.net ISEE - www.i-see.org