HP SureStore 7400 Linux Configuration HP VA 7100/7400 - Page 5

Linux Configuration HP VA 7100/7400 Log in as root and use RPM to install the sources: # rpm -Uvh kernel-headers-2.2.19-6.2.7.i386.rpm # rpm -Uvh kernel-source-2.2.19-6.2.7.i386.rpm Build the base kernel. 2 Patches After the kernel has been upgraded, consider applying the following patches to the Kernel's SCSI subsystem source code. The patches are listed here and summarized below. 1. Command View 2. Device "Not Ready - LUN Becoming Ready" 3. Refined SCSI Error Recovery There are versions of these patches for the Linux 2.2.16-3 and 2.2.19 kernels. The changes can be reached from http://www.hp.com. Follow the links to the VA 7100/7400 mid-range disk array storage products. The patches are commented so that they are easily discernable from the baseline code and so that you can distinguish between the changes applicable for each patch. Each change section is bracketed with "begin" and "end" patch tag comments. The comments are of the form: {begin | end} The patch tag, HP_VA7100, indicates the Hewlett-Packard patch for the Virtual Array 7x00. The description summarizes its purpose, and the date indicates the timeliness of the patch; newer versions of the patch will have more recent dates. The "begin" will appear as the first line of a section of code that has been modified, and the "end" will appear after each modified change section. This set of patches is commented as follows: HP_VA7100 vendor unique data direction 2001-03-15 HP_VA7100 16 byte CDB 2001-03-15 HP_VA7100 device not ready - LUN becoming ready 2001-03-15 HP_VA7100 refined error recovery 2001-03-15 Packaging The patches can be found in the following patch files (packaged for the applicable kernel): Command_View_2.2.16.patch Command_View_2.2.19.patch - contains the patches needed to run HP Command View SDM software on a Linux host. This includes the "vendor unique data direction" and "16 byte CDB" patches. Rev 2002-01-23 Page 5