Release notes say no support for the RAID card in a box I just picked
up...is there no hope for this box running 2.6 kernel?
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/release-
notes/as-x86/
The kernel shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 includes the new
megaraid_mbox driver from LSI Logic, which replaces the megaraid driver.
The megaraid_mbox driver has an improved design, is compatible with the
2.6 kernel, and includes support for the latest hardware. However,
megaraid_mbox does not support some of the older hardware that was
supported by the megaraid driver.
Adapters with the following PCI vendor ID and device ID pairs are not
supported by the megaraid_mbox driver:
vendor, device
0x101E, 0x9010
0x101E, 0x9060
0x8086, 0x1960 <--- my card ---<
The lspci -n command can be used to display the IDs for adapters
installed in a particular machine. Products with these IDs are known by
(but not limited to) the following model names:
* Dell PERC (dual-channel fast/wide SCSI) RAID controller
* Dell PERC2/SC (single-channel Ultra SCSI) RAID controller
* Dell PERC2/DC (dual-channel Ultra SCSI) RAID controller
* Dell CERC (four-channel ATA/100) RAID controller
* MegaRAID 428
* MegaRAID 466
* MegaRAID Express 500
* HP NetRAID 3Si and 1M
Both Dell and LSI Logic have indicated that they no longer support these
models in the 2.6 kernel. As a result, these adapters are not supported
in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
Craig
Craig White wrote:> Release notes say no support for the RAID card in a box I just picked > up...is there no hope for this box running 2.6 kernel?You are one of many trying to get RHEL4/CentOS4/FC3+ onto machines with this RAID controller breed. I am one of several people attempting to produce a viable driver disk that will enable us to install onto these machines. Unfortunately, this is my first-ever attempt at doing so, and I am met only with challenges and brick-walls. I am happy to share with you everything I have learned in this effort, although my solution doesn't yet work. I wish I had better news, but it seems that those who know how to make this work aren't interested in sharing a solid, complete, working solution with everyone else on a "for newbies to kernel drivers" level. When I actually get this to work, I assure you that I will publish the full procedure.
Craig White wrote: > I thought I20 driver would do it... > > http://i2o.shadowconnect.com/survey_detail.php?id=76 > > but I get kernel panics when it loads I've never seen a reference to I20 before, and I'm not sure I'd try it. :) > > Did you see this? > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138590 Yes. The driver disk I'm trying to build uses the source code for the old LSI megaraid driver -- the one that does work. The machine I have that I'm building this disk for is a Dell PowerEdge 2300 with the PERC 2/SC RAID controller. That machine is currently running CentOS 3 just fine. I'm trying to fully rebuild the box from scratch using CentOS 4; that's why I'm motivated to attempt to make this driver disk. If you're interested in what I have, here's an archive link to one of my older posts on this very topic: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-August/009501.html -- William Kimball, Jr. http://www.kimballstuff.com/ "Programming is an art-form that fights back!" (Unknown)