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

[Jason Martens]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 09:19 +0100, stephen mulcahy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is anyone here running Debian on a 2950? I'm curious to know how well it 
> works before we go and purchase such a configuration.
> 
> In particular, how well does the PERC 5/i RAID controller work (and what 
> exactly is it hardware-wise?).
> 
> I'm particularly concerned about the availability of tools for 
> monitoring the health of the RAID array - am I sol if I try to get 
> monitoring working with this on anything other than Red Hat / SuSE?
> 
> Thanks for any comments you might have,

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?

Thanks,
Jason Martens