Re: PERC 4/Di Driver for RedHat 7.1 (retail)

On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 04:59, Richard Homerstone wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Does a driver disk exist for the PERC 4/Di (aacraid / megaraid) device
> that can be used at install time on RedHat Linux 7.1 (retail not SBE).

4/Di is megaraid.

Dell hasn't produced one.  It's not impossible to build one yourself,
but isn't something we can do for you.  I refer you to
http://people.redhat.com/dledford/ for instructions on using Doug's
driver disk development kit.  You essentially need a recent version of
the megaraid driver, 1.18f or 1.18h (h being the latest).

> Any and all help appreciated, I'd rather here back the answer "No!"
> with a reason why not, after all if I can run DOS 6.22 on the machine
> and it can see the Raid 1 & 5 without a problem I'm at a loss as to
> why it seems so difficult in Linux.

There are a few problems.  1) Dell didn't release that OS on that
platform.  In fact, we didn't release 7.2 on that platform, for roughly
the same reasons.  See the FAQ entry for installing 7.2 on PE2600 to see
how painful it is.  Possible, but painful.
http://lists.us.dell.com/fom-serve/cache/67.html
The biggest hit comes from the IOAPIC addressing change, which earlier
kernels (obviously) didn't have, but which is required for the IOAPICs
to work.  That and missing drivers of course...  References in there to
kernel 2.4.7-10a can be replaced with 2.4.20-13*.

Once you get it installed, we *strongly* recommend using Red Hat Network
to update your system, especially the kernel, to a recent version.  The
latest errata kernel 2.4.20-13* has all the hardware support needed for
that platform.

Thanks,
Matt

-- 
Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer, Architect
Dell Linux Solutions www.dell.com/linux
Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com


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