[clue-tech] Driver Disk?

[mike havlicek]

--- William <wlist-clue at kimballstuff.com> wrote:

> I have an old Dell PowerEdge 2300 which suffers the
> dilemma of no modern 
> Linux driver support for the on-board American
> Megatrends PERC 2/SC RAID 
> controller. This machine is currently running CentOS
> 3, which installed 
> without a hitch (which, apparently, included the
> last version of the 
> megaraid driver that supports this RAID controller).
> 
> CentOS 4 will not install on this machine.
> Apparently, the megaraid 
> drivers with CentOS 4 do not support this RAID
> controller. Fine; I 
> hunted around with Google and found repeated
> recommendations to build my 
> own driver disk, obviously from the existing CentOS
> 3 source. The 
> problem is, I don't know how to build the megaraid
> driver from this 
> source, nor how to actually fashion the driver disk
> 
> How do I create a driver disk from my existing
> CentOS 3 installation 
> that will place the appropriate drivers onto floppy
> such that the CentOS 
> 4 installer can use them? Please be explicit in
> detail -- I don't know 
> what it means to "build a new megaraid.ko", as
> written elsewhere.
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> -- 
> William
> 
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You want a quick answer... insmod.

I have worked with the PERC (PowerEdgeControllers)

BTW those controllers have their downfalls in real
redundance.

I don't really know what you want. Those of us that
used RAID before it was a "driver"  the option had to
be hacked into the installation kernel. Build the
kernel module and insert it as a module required for
install....

Ha-Ha--> It is possible. But be careful about how you
ask for what you want.....

And other than a kernel module that had to be inserted
into the kernel ... what are you talking about ? 


Diff between driver and module support....

Do you want the PERC monolithically coded into the
kernel?

... I will not baby sit you ...
-Mike



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