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

[Tuomas Koski]

Sirs,

I installed one of similar 2950s with the daily snapshot (from the 5ht of
October) of the daily built Debian-Installer images without any problems.

-- 
Tuomas Koski


> On Thu Sep 28 2006, Jason Martens <jmartens at cityofevanston.org> wrote:
>> I'm working on installing Debian on a 2950 right now.  So far, the etch
>> beta 3 installer detects the disks, but after I reboot into the new
>> system, the initrd can't detect the raid controller.  The installed
>> kernel is 2.6.16.  I need the megaraid_mbox driver right? When did that
>> get added to the kernel.org kernels?
>
>   I believe that what you want is the megaraid_sas driver.  It's
> actually in the 2.6.16 kernel, but there's a bug in the etch beta 3
> installer that stops it being installed into the initrd (see
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384437 for a
> description and a workaround).  I'm also installing Debian on a 2950
> right now; what worked well for me was the updated (and, of course,
> unsupported!) unofficial sarge installer at
> http://kmuto.jp/b.cgi/debian/d-i-2616.htm .
>   I've got a working sarge system now (with a backported 2.6.16
> kernel), but I'm getting occasional SCSI errors under heavy write load
> -- I plan to write a separate post about that once I investigate a bit
> more.
>
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