kernel module for 2950 sata raid?

[eclark]

Ill give this a shot. There are huge complaints with it for 03.01, but its a 
starting point at least. Why has Dell opted to become so bleeding edge? I 
cant even boot an 860 off an RHEL4 cd! 


On Friday 02 March 2007 11:49 am, BSmith at lyrix.com wrote:
> You are welcome to try my 2.4.x backport patch:
> http://linux.dell.com/files/megaraid_sas/rhl7.2-backport/
>
> It's for kernel 2.4.20-28.7 and applies to megaraid_sas v00.00.02.03,
> which at this point is old, but might provide a starting point for you to
> build your own driver.
> Since 2.4.34.1 is much newer, you might have even less to edit than I did
> to get it to compile.
>
> - Brian
>
>
>
>
>
> eclark <eclark at alabanza.com>
> Sent by: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> 03/02/2007 11:15 AM
>
>         To:     linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: kernel module for 2950 sata raid?
>
>
> Whats the equivalent to that for a 24 kernel? There is no megaraid_sas for
> 24
> that I see.
>
> On Friday 02 March 2007 11:11 am, Marnix Werners wrote:
> > my 1950 has a PERC5i controller and needs MEGARAID_SAS, that worked for
>
> me
>
> > with kernel 2.6.18
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Marnix.
> >
> > 2007/3/2, eclark <eclark at alabanza.com>:
> > > I just built a kernel (2.4.34.1) for a 2950 we just got in. However,
>
> it
>
> > > seems
> > > the kernel does not detect the drive. The kernel was built with
> > > megaraid2. Is
> > > this the appropriate module for the sata raid controller that comes
>
> with
>
> > > the
> > > 2950s? Its a perc5e-something.
> > >
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