Problem with OMSA and hard drives

[L.P.H. van Belle]

Are you sure u dont use SATA disk ?? 

This is about a PE1950 
http://theibm.blogspot.com/ 
Nice Howto for You. 

Louis
 

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>Van: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
>[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] Namens Marnell, Michael
>Verzonden: donderdag 16 augustus 2007 17:49
>Aan: linux-poweredge at dell.com
>Onderwerp: RE: Problem with OMSA and hard drives
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>Marek,
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>Can you tell me how you got the OMSA Storage Management 
>functionality to work?  I am running Debian on a PE1950 and 
>have been unable to get the OMSA web component working so that 
>I can get to Storage Management.  Did you run into any issues 
>or did it work right from the start?
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>Mike
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>Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:21:26 -0500
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>From: <Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com>
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>Subject: RE: Problem with OMSA and hard drives
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>To: <mfaderewski at yahoo.com>, <linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com>
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>The sysfs version on your system likely doesn?t match the 
>versions that are supported by OMSA. We use this to enumerate 
>the storage adapter and then the disks, etc. from there. 
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>From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
>[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Marek Faderewski
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>Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:16 AM
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>Subject: Problem with OMSA and hard drives
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>Hello all,
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>I have Dell PowerEdge 1950 server, with PERC5/i controller, 
>and two SAS 500GB hard drives, I installed on it GNU/Debian 
>(Lenny) - testing version. During installation (about two 
>months ago (June 2007)) I used version 2.6.18-4-686 of Lenny?s 
>kernel. But the system didn?t discover PERC5/I controller. 
>Then I divided one hard drive into partitions and run Debian 
>system. During that I had another problem, Debian discovered 
>hard drives as sdb and sdc, but I managed to find solution to 
>this in the Internet.
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>Lately new kernel version 2.6.21-2-686 appeared so I updated 
>the system. Then I wanted to configure RAID.  On the 
>linux.dell.com website I read that I can use Dell OpenManage 
>Server Administrator (OMSA) to manage the server. So I 
>installed the package OMSA 5.2 for Debian from 
>ftp://ftp.sara.nl/pub/sara-omsa.
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>However OMSA detects all, except for hard drives, link Storage 
>is empty, PERC5/i controller was detected. In the file 
>/etc/modules I have many megaraid_sas.
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>Can anyone help me?
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>What should I do to make OMSA package detect hard drives?
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>Best Regards
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>Marek Faderewski
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