HP NetRAID 2M card

HP NetRAID 2M cards

HP sold several cards as "NetRAID 2M" but they have different part numbers and PCI subid strings. This page documents the ones I've seen. Hopefully it has the right text that search engines will find it and lead people searching for this info here.

All but the "master" card seem to work find with the newer LSI Logic driver available in recent 2.6 Linux kernels. In particular I tested 2.6.17.6 (kernel.org), 2.6.17-3 (debian), the 2.6.15 kernel from the daily debian-installer I used, the 2.6.8 kernel from sarge d-i. With a module kernel I had megaraid_mm, megaraid_mbox loaded. The kernel options you need are CONFIG_MEGARAID_NEWGEN, CONFIG_MEGARAID_MM, CONFIG_MEGARAID_MAILBOX.

P3465

Picture of P3475 card

The useful strings on this card:

HP P/N: P3475-60001
Replacement: P3475-63001
Exchange: P3475-69001
On the PCB: SERIES 493 REV-C1 (C) 2000 AMERICAN MEGATRENDS, INC.

Picture of boot text from P3475

Picture of bios text from P3475

The useful strings from these pictures:

AMI MegaRAID 40-LD BIOS              Ver  3.12 August 09, 2001
Copyright(c) AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INC.
HA -0 (Bus 3 Dev0)Series 493 40 Logical Drive Firmware
 Standard FW F160 DRAM=128MB (SDRAM)
Battery module is present on adapter
1 Logical Drives found on the Host Adapter.
1 Logical Drive(s) handled by BIOS
Press <Ctrl><M> to Run MegaRAID Configuration Utility
or Press <Ctrl><M> for WebBIOS

and

MegaRAID BIOS Config Utility(40-Ld) Ver5.23 July 27, 2001 Standard:Adapter-01

Output of lspci -v

0000:02:01.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP12160 Dual Channel Ultra3 SCSI Processor (rev 06)
	Subsystem: American Megatrends Inc. QLA12160 on AMI MegaRAID
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
	I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
	Memory at ea100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Expansion ROM at ea120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 1

0000:03:00.0 RAID bus controller: American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID (rev 02)
	Subsystem: American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID 493 Elite 1600 RAID Controller
	Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 193
	Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

Output of lspci -nv

0000:02:01.0 0100: 1077:1216 (rev 06)
	Subsystem: 101e:8493
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
	I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
	Memory at ea100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Expansion ROM at ea120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 1

0000:03:00.0 0104: 101e:1960 (rev 02)
	Subsystem: 101e:0493
	Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 193
	Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

P7749

Picture of P7749 card

The useful strings on this card:

HP P/N: P7749-62000
Replacement: P7749-67001
Exchange: P7749-69001
On the PCB: SERIES 493 REV-C1 (C) 2000 AMERICAN MEGATRENDS, INC.

Picture of boot text from P7749

Picture of bios text from P7749

The useful strings from these pictures:

hp raid controller BIOS version J.01.01
Copyright(c) 2001 LSI Logic, Inc.
Option: experienced users may press <Ctrl><M> for HP NetRAIN Express Tools Now
Controller-00 (Bus 03 Dev 00) HP NetRAID-2M : ZX1/M
 Firmware Ver K.01.04
 DRAM =128MB SDRAM ,CLUSTER = disabled

and

HP NetRAID Express Tools      Ver B.04.02 10-04-01            Adapter-00

Output of lspci -v

0000:02:01.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP12160 Dual Channel Ultra3 SCSI Processor (rev 06)
	Subsystem: American Megatrends Inc. QLA12160 on AMI MegaRAID
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
	I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
	Memory at ea100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Expansion ROM at ea120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 1

0000:03:00.0 RAID bus controller: American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID (rev 25)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 60e8
	Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 193
	Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

Output of lspci -nv

0000:02:01.0 0100: 1077:1216 (rev 06)
	Subsystem: 101e:8493
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
	I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
	Memory at ea100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Expansion ROM at ea120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 1

0000:03:00.0 0104: 101e:1960 (rev 25)
	Subsystem: 103c:60e8
	Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 193
	Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

There is a card very similar to the P7749, but slightly different lspci info. I don't know if it's a P7749 or another part number and I don't have pictures, I don't have physical access to the card. This is the card in haydn and master.

Currently we are having problems getting this card to work with 2.6 kernels. The system boots and the driver loads, but the kernel can't find init, I suspect that the driver can't see the array.

I have confirmed that at least the haydn card has the latest firmware available from HP (Firmware H.02.02 BIOS G.02.03).

Output of lspci -v

0000:02:01.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP12160 Dual Channel Ultra3 
SCSI Processor (rev 06)
        Subsystem: American Megatrends Inc. QLA12160 on AMI MegaRAID
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 29
        I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
        Memory at ea100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Expansion ROM at  [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 1

0000:03:00.0 RAID bus controller: American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID (rev 20)
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 60e8
        Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
        Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Expansion ROM at  [disabled] [size=32K]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

Output of lspci -nv

0000:02:01.0 0100: 1077:1216 (rev 06)
        Subsystem: 101e:8493
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 29
        I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
        Memory at ea100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Expansion ROM at  [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 1

0000:03:00.0 0104: 101e:1960 (rev 20)
        Subsystem: 103c:60e8
        Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
        Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Expansion ROM at  [disabled] [size=32K]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

Output in dmesg of working 2.4.26 kernel

megaraid: v2.10.1 (Release Date: Wed Dec  3 15:34:42 EST 2003)
megaraid: found 0x101e:0x1960:bus 3:slot 0:func 0
scsi2:Found MegaRAID controller at 0xf8817000, IRQ:16
megaraid: [H01.08:G01.02] detected 1 logical drives.
megaraid: Firmware H.01.07, H.01.08, and H.01.09 on 1M/2M controllers
megaraid: do not support 64 bit addressing.
megaraid: DISABLING 64 bit support.
megaraid: channel[0] is raid.
megaraid: channel[1] is raid.
scsi2 : LSI Logic MegaRAID H01.08 254 commands 16 targs 5 chans 7 luns
scsi2: scanning scsi channel 0 for logical drives.
  Vendor: MegaRAID  Model: LD0 RAID5 40012R  Rev:   H
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi2: scanning scsi channel 1 for logical drives.
scsi2: scanning scsi channel 2 for logical drives.
scsi2: scanning scsi channel 4 [P0] for physical devices.
scsi2: scanning scsi channel 5 [P1] for physical devices.
  Vendor: SDR       Model: GEM318            Rev: 0
  Type:   Processor                          ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 286744576 512-byte hdwr sectors (146813 MB)
Partition check:
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3

dannf has yet another card

BIOS boot screen,

hp raid controller BIOS version G.02.03
Copyright(c) 2001 LSI Logic, Inc.
Option: experienced users may press  for HP NetRAID Express Tools Now
Controller-0 (Bus 8 Dev 0)HP NetRAID-2M
Firmware Ver H.02.00
DRAM =128MB SDRAM ,CLUSTER = disabled

Kernel output (with no drives attached),

megaraid: found 0x101e:0x1960:bus 8:slot 0:func 0
scsi0:Found MegaRAID controller at 0xffffff0010050000, IRQ:78
megaraid: [H02.00:G02.03] detected 0 logical drives.
megaraid: supports extended CDBs.
megaraid: channel[0] is raid.
megaraid: channel[1] is raid.

I used tkdiff to diff the output of lspci -v and lspci -nv for a couple of the cards. Here are some screenshots of that:
From 3437 to 7749

From master to 7749

Firmware upgrades

HP has a firmware upgrade available here. It claims to be

"Firmware H.02.02 for HP NetRAID-1M/2M [P3410A, P3411A, P3411B, P3475A, P3475B]" No mention of P7749. Here are some floppy images for the lp1000r including the one for NetRAID 2M.
If I try and use the upgrade utility on the P7749, here is what it asks,

So the firmware on the system seems to be newer than the latest available update from HP. Confusing eh? I can't find a version history to determine the heritage. Maybe the system firmware update tool can update the netraid too? I'm not so sure.

I tried updating the card in 'haydn' and it already had the latest version (Firmware H.02.02 BIOS G.02.03).

Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org>
Wed, 19 Jul 2006 04:04:44 -0700