> The 5i controller is probably too old for the hpsa driver to support. > The hpsa driver is looking for information to determine if the drive is > online/offline and > this information is not available. > > What was the original issue you were having with the cciss driver?
Christoph Hellwig updated block layer with "block: Make most scsi_req_init() calls implicit" and at first try, cciss was left without the needed initialization. This caused OOPS in udev probing but the system worked. The issue was fixed by Christoph quickly. But he suggested it might be worth trying hpsa driver instead of cciss, with a longer term goal to to move users of cciss over to hpsa if possible. Now that I have tested it, it seems not all older cards are supported in hpsa - it's more than ID-s and interrupt masks. -- Meelis Roos (mr...@linux.ee)
