I have 2 servers, they are the same (Dell P1850).

On on of the servers I can use megarc. ANy ideas why?

anja ~ # dmesg|grep megaraid
megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.6 (Release Date: Mon Mar 7 00:01:03 EST 2005)
megaraid: 2.20.4.6 (Release Date: Mon Mar 07 12:27:22 EST 2005)
megaraid: probe new device 0x1028:0x0013:0x1028:0x016c: bus 2:slot 14:func
0
megaraid: fw version:[521X] bios version:[H430]
anja ~ # /usr/local/trekia/bin/megarc -AllAdpInfo



**********************************************************************
MEGARC MegaRAID Configuration Utility(LINUX)-1.11(12-07-2004)
By LSI Logic Corp.,USA

**********************************************************************
[Note: For SATA-2, 4 and 6 channel controllers, please specify
Ch=0 Id=0..15 for specifying physical drive(Ch=channel,
Id=Target)]

Type ? as command line arg for help

No Adapters Found

Error: No MegaRaid Found
anja ~ #



Here are thw working server:


katja bin # dmesg|grep megaraid
megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.6 (Release Date: Mon Mar 7 00:01:03 EST 2005)
megaraid: 2.20.4.6 (Release Date: Mon Mar 07 12:27:22 EST 2005)
megaraid: probe new device 0x1028:0x0013:0x1028:0x016c: bus 2:slot 14:func
0
megaraid: fw version:[521X] bios version:[H430]
katja bin # /usr/local/trekia/bin/megarc -AllAdpInfo




**********************************************************************
MEGARC MegaRAID Configuration Utility(LINUX)-1.11(12-07-2004)
By LSI Logic Corp.,USA

**********************************************************************
[Note: For SATA-2, 4 and 6 channel controllers, please specify
Ch=0 Id=0..15 for specifying physical drive(Ch=channel,
Id=Target)]

Type ? as command line arg for help

AdapterNo FirmwareType CardType
00 40LD/8SPAN PERC 4e/Si
katja bin #