SCO 6 on PowerEdge 2950

[Bob Lawson]

Hi Steve,

Is this a 2950 or 2950III?
	2950
What is the BIOS version?
	BIOS Version 2.2.6
What is the root disk controller and disk hardware being used?
	DELL PERC6/i
	There is also an Adaptec 39320A in the system.
What disk/RAID configuration have you done, if any?
	LUN0 - RAID1,  LUN1 - RAID5
What is the HBA driver you are trying to load and where exactly did you 
get it from?
	We have tried booting with the driver on the CD


	Also the Megasas driver from
		ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/openserver6/600/drivers/megasas.1.1
		Tried it by burning the ISO image to a CD and also by
creating a
		floppy on another SCO 5.0.4 Unix system.  We tried two
different
		CDs as well.
		The Floppy was mountable and readable and had a variety of
files
		and directories on it.
		Both gave the same error:  Error when mounting HBA media
		The light on the USB floppy flashed so it appeared to access
it.

	In the document:
http://osr600doc.sco.com/en/GetStart/gsgC.HWconfig.html
	under: SCO OpenServer Release 6 Host Bus Adapter (HBA) drivers
	There is an X under the Available from CD Boot Image column
	for the MEGA HBA adapter.  So we had assumed the correct controller
	would be on the boot CD.


What do you see on the console after the failure (Cntl-Alt-H)?
	This is the information that was displayed: 

	The system is coming up 

	VT0>0:0,7,0: HBA        :(usb_msto,1) USB USB HBA 
	        0,0,0: DISK     :TEAC   FD-05PUB 3200 


	WARNING FDC UNEXPECTED STATE 

	1:0,2,0:HBA             :(ide,1) Generic IDE/ATAPI 
 	    0,0,0:CDROM        :HL-DT-STCDRW/DVD  GCCT10NA102 
	2: 0,7,0:HBA            :(ADPU320,1) Adaptec Ultra320 
	3: 0,7,0:HBA            :(ADPU320,2) Adaptec Ultra320 

The PERC6/i does not appear to have been recognized.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Dragonette [mailto:stevedr at sco.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:23 PM
To: Bob Lawson
Cc: sco-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: Re: SCO 6 on PowerEdge 2950

Hi Bob,

Specific information and installation notes on the 2950 models certified can
be found here:
http://wdb1.sco.com/chwp/owa/hch_model_cert_page?f_model_id=99194&f_release_
id=601
http://wdb1.sco.com/chwp/owa/hch_model_cert_page?f_model_id=99358&f_release_
id=601

If nothing there helps, can you please provide the following details:

Is this a 2950 or 2950III?
What is the BIOS version?
What is the root disk controller and disk hardware being used?
What disk/RAID configuration have you done, if any?
What is the HBA driver you are trying to load and where exactly did you 
get it from?
What do you see on the console after the failure (Cntl-Alt-H)?

Regards,

Steve Dragonette
SCO Global Services

Bob Lawson wrote:
>
> I'm trying to load SCO Open Server 6 on a PowerEdge 2950. It keeps 
> coming up with the error:
>
> Incorrect disk partition information has been detected on Disk Drive 0.
>
> We have tried to load the MEGARaid driver from a CD but get an error:
>
> Error when mounting HBA media.
>
> We downloaded the ISO image from the SCO site and it seems to read OK 
> in Windows.
>
> We have gone down the list of HBE adapters and disabled all but the 
> MEGA drive but it keeps loading the adpu320.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob
>
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