[gentoo-dev] Problems with Dell Server

[gentoo-dev] Problems with Dell Server

[joe.derosa.b1]

I just tried to install RC5 on a poweredge 2450, which has some kind of adaptec
on board raid controller along with a 79xx. The raid controller doesn't appear
to be recognized by the boot kernel, in fact I could not find anything in the
kernel config that seemed to be the correct driver.

On Dell's site, they refer to a special version of RedHat that you need to use,
and they have rpm's and gz files that are supposed to get you rolling. I will be
trying to build a custom kernel and new CD to see if I can get this rolling.


Joe DeRosa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Problems with Dell Server

[Hendrik Visage]

modprobe megaraid
then a modprobe eepro100 to get the onboard adapater going, and then your are
set to rock :)
(Done it at the office :)

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 10:48:17AM -0400, joe.derosa.b1@bayer.com wrote:
> I just tried to install RC5 on a poweredge 2450, which has some kind of adaptec
> on board raid controller along with a 79xx. The raid controller doesn't appear
> to be recognized by the boot kernel, in fact I could not find anything in the
> kernel config that seemed to be the correct driver.
> 
> On Dell's site, they refer to a special version of RedHat that you need to use,
> and they have rpm's and gz files that are supposed to get you rolling. I will be
> trying to build a custom kernel and new CD to see if I can get this rolling.
> 
> 
> Joe DeRosa
> 
> 
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Hendrik Visage
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Problems with Dell Server

[Daniel Robbins]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 10:48:17AM -0400, joe.derosa.b1@bayer.com wrote:
> I just tried to install RC5 on a poweredge 2450, which has some kind of adaptec
> on board raid controller along with a 79xx. The raid controller doesn't appear
> to be recognized by the boot kernel, in fact I could not find anything in the
> kernel config that seemed to be the correct driver.
> 
> On Dell's site, they refer to a special version of RedHat that you need to use,
> and they have rpm's and gz files that are supposed to get you rolling. I will be
> trying to build a custom kernel and new CD to see if I can get this rolling.
> 
> Joe DeRosa

Please get more info on the controller in question, and I can email Justin Gibbs
(Linux Adaptec driver guy) and find out what's up.

Best Regards,

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] Problems with Dell Server

[Bruce A. Locke]

Sounds like you have a PercRaid 3i RAID controller.  The Dell rackmount
servers we have at work have such cards and they seem fairly common these
days in Dell rackmounts.  Vanilla Linux kernels do not contain support for
these cards.  Redhat 7.0+ has support for these cards out of the box which
are refered to as aacraid cards.

Please check the following URLs for more information:
http://domsch.com/linux
http://www.dell.com/us/en/bsd/topics/linux_aacraid.htm

And an informative thread about how "clean" the drivers are considered to
be by Alan Cox and co... :(
http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0009.2/0162.html

But at least they seem to work well in the four or so Dell rackmount linux
boxes we have here at work (a couple with custom compiles of 2.2.x, the
other two with default redhat 7.1 kernels)

Hope this helps...


On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:48:17 -0400
joe.derosa.b1@bayer.com wrote:

> I just tried to install RC5 on a poweredge 2450, which has some kind of
adaptec
> on board raid controller along with a 79xx. The raid controller doesn't
appear
> to be recognized by the boot kernel, in fact I could not find anything
in the
> kernel config that seemed to be the correct driver.
> 
> On Dell's site, they refer to a special version of RedHat that you need
to use,
> and they have rpm's and gz files that are supposed to get you rolling. I
will be
> trying to build a custom kernel and new CD to see if I can get this
rolling.
> 
> 
> Joe DeRosa
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> gentoo-dev mailing list
> gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
> http://cvs.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev
> 



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Bruce A. Locke
blocke@shivan.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Problems with Dell Server

[derosa]

I downloaded the 2.4.7 patch, I will try this on Monday, thanks!

>
> Sounds like you have a PercRaid 3i RAID controller.  The Dell rackmount
> servers we have at work have such cards and they seem fairly common these
> days in Dell rackmounts.  Vanilla Linux kernels do not contain support for
> these cards.  Redhat 7.0+ has support for these cards out of the box which
> are refered to as aacraid cards.
>
> Please check the following URLs for more information:
> http://domsch.com/linux
> http://www.dell.com/us/en/bsd/topics/linux_aacraid.htm
>