Subject: Re: iop0: unable to retrieve HRT
To: Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 05/24/2006 18:40:54
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:55:00PM -0500, Chris Tribo wrote:
> 
> On Jan 6, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Patrick Welche wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 11:15:44AM -0500, Chris Tribo wrote:
> >>
> >>Is it really an IOP device or is it a PERC/MegaRaid controller that
> >>we don't know about yet? In the later case you can set the PERC/
> >>MegaRaid BIOS to present the disks as I2O instead of MegaRaid, Though
> >>I didn't have any luck with this on a PERC 3/DC in a 2550, it would
> >>show the raw disks on SCSI channel B and not the ld units.
> >>
> >>Can you post a dmesg?
> 
> Since I no longer have hardware to test with, I'd say at least one of  
> the following is possible:
> 
> - The controller is set to Mass Storage mode instead of I2O, and  
> isn't configuring the I2O port

and sure enough, your first guess was right - I just didn't find it in
the bios until I saw this page:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/RAID/66JVW/BIOS_Utl.htm#Objects_Me
nu
  
under "emulation"


Cheers,

Patrick