No device file for HP Smart Array 642

[Luis Paulo]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 05:53, Chris du Preez <chris at flamengro.co.za> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Chris du Preez <chris at flamengro.co.za>
>> wrote:
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>> > I have a small problem and would appreciate any help or of someone can
>> > point
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>> > me in the right direction in order to solve my problem.
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>> > I have upgraded form Ubuntu-8.04 to Ubuntu-10.10 and in the process the
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>> > device files for my HP Smart Array is lost. I have include a line
>> > "cciss" in
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>> > "/etc/modules" to make sure the cciss module is loaded at boot time. I
>> > have
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>> > also put a line "cciss" in "/etc/initramfs-tools" and run "sudo
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>> > update-initramfs -c -k $(uname -r)".
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>> > The module cciss is loaded in the kernel. When I use the command "lsmod
>> > |
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>> > grep cciss" I get "cciss 100213 0" but there are no "/dev/cciss". I have
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>> > installed the server kernel 2.6.35-22-server.
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>> Have you configured the BIOS to detect/use RAID? Have you configured
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>> the array through the BIOS?
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> I have configured the the raids through the BIOS, but the problem is the
> kernel doesn't even pick up my controller.
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> I have installed hpacucli. When I try to detect the controller with "sudo
> hpacucli ctrl all show" I get a message "Error: No controllers detected."
>

This one says some problem was solved on 2.6.32-25 kernels
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/667187
Maybe you may wait a bit and give it another try then?

Regards
Luis