I can't see certain raid and scsi drives

[funguy]

Is there a list of mass storage drivers rolled into an extension.  The kernel has a lot, but I just saw 2 called raid and scsi. Where are the adaptec, LSI, Intel, etc drivers?

[Rich]

Hi funguy
Open AppBrowser and look at the following:
scsi-3.0.3-tinycore.tcz
raid-dm-3.0.3-tinycore.tcz
mdadm.tcz
sg3-utils.tcz

[funguy]

I read the info on the ones you listed and most say "software raid" do they help with missing hardware raid card drivers?

[gerald_clark]

Most real hardware RAID cards appear as a regular controller, showing the array as a single drive.
Some do require special drivers, and some are no longer supported by modern kernels because of
the lack of manufacturer support.

[Rich]

Hi funguy
I don't know if you are looking for support for specific hardware or trying to select hardware based on
what is supported since you chose not to provide any details. Either way, here is a good place to look:
http://wiki.debian.org/LinuxRaidForAdmins
Many if not all of the drivers listed there are in  scsi-3.0.3-tinycore.tcz.

[funguy]

Sorry for the lack of details.  I will find the specific card info tomorrow.   I saw one post in the forum that had dmraid=on in the kernel line.  Is that needed for tinycore to even use the hardware drivers from the module?  My goal is to have all scsi/raid/sas/sata drivers so that tinycore is ready for anything.

[funguy]

I can see the drives now :
You were right Rich!  I booted tinycore-current.iso and used appbrowser to get ezremaster.tcz (download+load)
Then I added the 4 modules like you said using ezremaster:
Clicked "connect" and found them...
scsi-3.0.3-tinycore.tcz  (clicked "Add App Extract TCZ to initrd")
raid-dm-3.0.3-tinycore.tcz (clicked "Add App Extract TCZ to initrd")
mdadm.tcz (clicked "Add App Extract TCZ to initrd")
sg3-utils.tcz (clicked "Add App Extract TCZ to initrd")
Clicked "next" "next" and copied the /tmp/ezremaster/ezremaster.iso to my usb
Burned it to cd to tested it on my HP Proliant with raid.
Works great.. now I can see all my raid drives!
Thank you soo much...you are a lifesaver.

P.S.  Can I use ezremaster to add: ftlk-1.10.tcz, flwm_topside.tcz, wbar.tcz, xlibs.tcz, xprogs.tcz, and xvesa.tcz the same way with "Add App Extract TCZ to initrd."  I was using cr_tc-initrd.sh after to get rid of the seperate cde folder for PXE.

[Rich]

Hi funguy
Glad to hear you got it running. There are a fair number of individuals on the web who have reported difficulties
getting Linux to run on the Proliants. Never having used ezremaster myself, I won't comment on that.

[fiddyschmitt]

Thanks funguy! The process you wrote worked perfectly for getting a Dell RAID to work.

I followed your steps and used ezremaster to add scsi-4.8.17-tinycore.tcz to the image.

I then got the driver to load at startup (before the items in /etc/fstab are mounted) by doing the following:

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sudo vi /tmp/ezremaster/extract/etc/init.d/rcS

//add the following lines before 'mount -a'
depmod -a
modprobe megaraid-sas
mkdir /mnt/sdb2