the recent discussion of support for Promise SATA drives reminded me that a while back i remember reading about a project to assemble a driver disk to provide wider hardware support than just stock CentOS. how's that coming along? i don't see anything in the wiki about it... as i have a vested interest in this project (since i'm still relying on old MegaRAID controllers), i'd be willing to help out with it. what's the current status, and what needs doing? thanks, -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v
Steve Huff wrote:> the recent discussion of support for Promise SATA drives reminded me > that a while back i remember reading about a project to assemble a > driver disk to provide wider hardware support than just stock CentOS. > how's that coming along? i don't see anything in the wiki about it...one way to fix that, is to start a wiki page. I do still have some makefiles around and can resuscitate that project.> > as i have a vested interest in this project (since i'm still relying on > old MegaRAID controllers), i'd be willing to help out with it. what's > the current status, and what needs doing?stutus is that I asked for someone to help with it, and didnt get much of a response. Also the few major drivers that people wanted, got rolled in upstream ( 3ware / *sata / couple of network interface drivers ), so there was much steam lost. - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
Steve Huff wrote:> the recent discussion of support for Promise SATA drives reminded me > that a while back i remember reading about a project to assemble a > driver disk to provide wider hardware support than just stock CentOS. > how's that coming along? i don't see anything in the wiki about it... > > as i have a vested interest in this project (since i'm still relying > on old MegaRAID controllers), i'd be willing to help out with it. > what's the current status, and what needs doing? > > thanks, > -stevePersonally, I could seriously use one with good support for those crusty old megaraid controllers that doesn't involve the use of a floppy drive, I have an old PE6450 that I can't seem to get anything useful to run on, and it's old internal FDD is dead, and grafting a fresh one in didn't even slightly work after a lot of hassle/time spent. In general, as wide as possible of driver support, possibly selectable in the install process, or with a decently documented workaround to enable/disable would be the shizzle. Peter -- Peter Serwe <peter at infostreet dot com> http://www.infostreet.com "The only true sports are bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing." -Earnest Hemingway "Because everything else requires only one ball." -Unknown "Do you wanna go fast or suck?" -Mike Kojima "There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love." -Sir Stirling Moss