Debian GNU/Linux on Dell Poweredge 2950 with PERC 5/i RAID

[Paul Jimenez]

On Sep 29, 2006, at 3:20 PM, Jason Martens wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 14:44 +0100, Bruno Savioli wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I had the same problem, but in my case on a 1950.
>> The driver in question is megaraid_sas, at least with my 1950.
>> I poste a message a while ago saying exactly what I had done to  
>> fix it.
>> See it below.
>>
>> It should work with the 2950 as well.
>>
>
> Thanks for the tip. That was indeed my problem, and I'm up and running
> now.  So, debian works with etch at least. It would probably work fine
> with sarge and the backports.org kernel too (which is 2.6.17 iirc).
>
> Jason

I can verify that; I've got a couple 2950s running sarge with a  
custom 2.6.17 kernel.
I don't know whether or how to make the standard installer work  
though, as I use FAI
to install my machines.

   --pj