Hello,

I just received a new Dell Precision T5400 and a new Adaptec 2230SLP
SCSI Controller card.  This system has been freshy installed with Open
SuSE v10.2.  The system is fully patched.

Linux chewie 2.6.18.8-0.9-default #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:48:05 UTC 2008
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

After I install the Adaptec Storage Manager from Adaptec's website,
asm-linux_v2.12_922.rpm, and launch the GUI, the ASM reports "No
controllers were found in this system".  I can see the card using the
following:

#lspci
07:05.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (Rocket) (rev 03)

#lspci -v
07:05.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (Rocket) (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Adaptec ASR-2230S + ASR-2230SLP PCI-X (Lancer)
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 74
        Memory at f7a00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
        Memory at f79ff000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Expansion ROM at f7c00000 [disabled] [size=32K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [48] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
Queue=0/1 Enable-
        Capabilities: [58] PCI-X non-bridge device
        Capabilities: [60] Vital Product Data

#hwinfo --storage-ctrl
45: PCI 705.0: 0104 RAID bus controller
  [Created at pci.286]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_9005_286
  Unique ID: ztKE.Cs92cf6rBgD
  Parent ID: Sulp.yyIDGfAwA_7
  SysFS ID: /devices/
pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0/0000:03:00.3/0000:07:05.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:07:05.0
  Hardware Class: storage
  Model: "Adaptec ASR-2230S + ASR-2230SLP PCI-X (Lancer)"
  Vendor: pci 0x9005 "Adaptec"
  Device: pci 0x0286 "AAC-RAID (Rocket)"
  SubVendor: pci 0x9005 "Adaptec"
  SubDevice: pci 0x028c "ASR-2230S + ASR-2230SLP PCI-X (Lancer)"
  Revision: 0x03
  Driver: "aacraid"
  Driver Modules: "aacraid"
  Memory Range: 0xf7a00000-0xf7bfffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xf79ff000-0xf79fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xf7c00000-0xf7c07fff (ro,prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 74 (70 events)
  Module Alias:
"pci:v00009005d00000286sv00009005sd0000028Cbc01sc04i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: aacraid is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe aacraid"
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #41 (PCI bridge)

I can also access the Adaptec card during system boot.  I don't have
any SCSI storage plugged into it just now but I'm going to attached a
Dell PowerVault 221S and hopefully configure it for RAID50.

Another question, the 2230SLP card is advertised to run up to 133Mhz
in the PCI-X bus.  My Dell Precision is advertised to run up to 100Mhz
in its PCI-X slots.  Why is my card showing up as running at 66Mhz???
There are no other cards in any of the other PCI-X slots.

Thanks in advance,

Rob Ramsey
Colorado Springs

Hello again,

I downloaded a newer ASM package, asm_linux_x64_v5_20_17414.rpm, off
the Adaptec site and got the Adaptec Storage Manager GUI to work
properly.

In my original post I had installed a much older version of the ASM
package asm-linux_v2.12_922.rpm.  This package was "supposed" to work
with the 2230SLP card and the SuSE OS though.  Aparently not : )

I'm still curious about the fact that the controller card is running
at 66Mhz though.  Any thoughts on that?

Thanks,

Rob Ramsey
Colorado Springs