Raid controller on PowerEdge 1300 and Debian Linux

[Seth Mos]

At 18:22 25-4-2004 +0200, Magnus Nordlander wrote:
>I just got myself a PowerEdge 1300, and I'm trying to install Debian
>Linux on it. The problem is that the raid controller won't work. When i
>use the sarge netinstall cd, i can't modprobe megaraid, and when i try
>the install disc from http://oregonstate.edu/~kveton/debian/ it tells me
>that it cannot find any hard disks.
>
>Am I not supposed to use the megaraid driver?

Well, yes.

But if the firmware on the controller is older then 1.13 it won't boot. 
There is a severe datacorruption bug in the the pre 1.13 firmware for the 
Perc 2/SC/DC controllers which is why the megaraid driver won't load.

cheers

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Seth
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