HP P410i RAID Controller issue

[motosauro]

Hi
Sorry for starting a new thread, but my search in previous posts didn't give any result.
I am about to deploy Proxmox 1.3 on a newly bought HP ProLiant 380 G6. What's preventing me from doing it is that the cciss driver bundled with proxmox 1.3 has a version of 3.14 and doesn't recognize my RAID controller:

server:~#dmesg | grep cciss
cciss: This is an unknown Smart Array controller.
cciss: Please update to the latest driver available from www.hp.com.
cciss0: <0x323a> at PCI 0000:04:00.0 IRQ 2289 using DAC
 cciss/c0d0: p1 p2
EXT3 FS on cciss/c0d0p1, internal journal

server:~# modinfo cciss
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.24-7-pve/kernel/drivers/block/cciss.ko
license:        GPL
version:        3.6.14
description:    Driver for HP Controller SA5xxx SA6xxx version 3.6.14
author:         Hewlett-Packard Company
srcversion:     2DA739003CCC89E35553F88
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd*sv*sd*bc01sc04i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003230sv0000103Csd0000323Dbc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003230sv0000103Csd00003237bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003238sv0000103Csd00003215bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003238sv0000103Csd00003214bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003238sv0000103Csd00003213bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003238sv0000103Csd00003212bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003238sv0000103Csd00003211bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003230sv0000103Csd00003235bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003230sv0000103Csd00003234bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003230sv0000103Csd00003223bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003220sv0000103Csd00003225bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d00000046sv00000E11sd0000409Dbc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d00000046sv00000E11sd0000409Cbc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d00000046sv00000E11sd0000409Bbc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d00000046sv00000E11sd0000409Abc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d00000046sv00000E11sd00004091bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d0000B178sv00000E11sd00004083bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d0000B178sv00000E11sd00004082bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d0000B178sv00000E11sd00004080bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d0000B060sv00000E11sd00004070bc*sc*i*
depends:        scsi_mod
vermagic:       2.6.24-7-pve SMP preempt mod_unload

Judging from I/O measurements the driver seems to work fine, but it randomly hangs the boot sequence (this is a known issue that has been resolved in the 3.6.20 version of the driver and has happened to me three times already).
HP has a precompiled 3.6.20 version of the driver available for download, but it's a .rpm since they only offer support only for RH and Suse).

Since the driver is available as source I installed kernel headers via apt-get and downloaded the source, trying to compile the driver myself, but I didn't succeed.

The best solution for me would be to have an up-to-date version of the cciss module.
Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[monokeroz]

i have this problem, too
any solution?

motosauro, did this cause any further problem on your server?

 

[dietmar]

We already updated the driver for V1.4 beta - That kernel is already quite stable an I guess you can install it without any problems:

ftp://pve.proxmox.com/debian/dists/...4/pve-kernel-2.6.24-8-pve_2.6.24-14_amd64.deb

 

[monokeroz]

We already updated the driver for V1.4 beta - That kernel is already quite stable an I guess you can install it without any problems:

ftp://pve.proxmox.com/debian/dists/...4/pve-kernel-2.6.24-8-pve_2.6.24-14_amd64.deb

thanks!
it's new production server, and i will try V1.4 beta today.

 

[motosauro]

Thanks for the info about the updated driver

@monokeroz
I did not have any actual problem with the outdated driver except for random hangs during startup, but since this machine is in our office we decided to give it a go nevertheless. Should it hang on reboot we can restart it manually.
On top of it there's always ILO2 that allows you to reboot the machine even remotely.

Just to be sure I created a Debian5 Virtual Machine on top of proxmox and copied the ubuntu install iso several times (using cp)until I reached full usage of the filesystem. I then checked the MD5 of the isos and they all checked out (1700+) so I'm quite assured there's no data corruption taking place.

Anyway as soon as 1.4 will reach production I'll be glad to switch to it. Will it take a reinstall or will it suffice to apt-get dist-upgrade?

 

[dietmar]

Anyway as soon as 1.4 will reach production I'll be glad to switch to it. Will it take a reinstall or will it suffice to apt-get dist-upgrade?

a dist-upgrade is all you need.

 

[motosauro]

a dist-upgrade is all you need.

Thx

 

[motosauro]

Double post, sry