Fedora Core2 on poweredge 1850

[Dhawal Doshy]

Greetings again,

Ok got one more step ahead.
Downloaded the following patch
ftp://ftp.lsil.com/pub/linux-megaraid/drivers/version-unified-2.20.0.B2.04.14.2004/megaraid-b2-lk2.6.5.patch.gz

gunzipped and applied it to the FC2 default kernel source.
cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358
patch -p1 < /root/megaraid-b2-lk2.6.5.patch
make menuconfig (ensured that I included the module )
Device Drivers ==> SCSI device support ==> SCSI low-level drivers ==>
[*] LSI Logic New Generation RAID Device Drivers
<M>   LSI Logic Management Module (New Driver) 
                       <M>     LSI Logic MegaRAID Driver (New Driver)

and built the kernel (just did a 'make' and a 'make modules'), sadly 
though a megaraid.o and megaraid.ko were created in the 
/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/drivers/scsi/megaraid/ directory, I was 
unable to insmod these drivers during a fresh install (FC2 on PE 1850)

I now have 2 PE 1850s (without a clue how to install an OS on them).

If someone can help me here onwards, I'll be really thankful. btw can 
someone confirm if I am using the right patch or do I need to use one of 
the patches in 
ftp://ftp.lsil.com/pub/linux-megaraid/drivers/version-2.20.3.1/

warm regards,
- dhawal

PS: Can the list be changed to prefix [Linux-Poweredge] to the Subject line?

Dhawal Doshy wrote:
> Dear List,
> How do i get FC2 (x86_64) working on a new poweredge 1850, the raid / 
> scsi controller is a perc 4e/Si.
> what i have tried so far.
> a. Used the drivers provided by dell, out of the box they only work with 
> rhel2 and rhel3
> b. tried compiling drivers using the dkms amd megaraid2 rpms provided by 
> dell.  I gave up after getting a million errors (related to megaraid2.c, 
> I managed to resolve the sd.h, scsi.h etc. errors)
> c. tried attaching an IDE disk, but it looks impossible to attach one. 
> the only expansion slots are ram / cpu and pci
> d. downloaded the drivers from 
> ftp://ftp.lsil.com/pub/linux-megaraid/drivers/version-2.20.3.1/, but 
> didn't manage to compile them.
> I'd appreciate is someone can point me in the right direction, or if 
> some already has a megaraid2.o / megaraid2.ko then i don't need to go 
> through this exercise.
> regards,
> dhawal doshy
> 
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