Centos 4.0 on SC440 SATA

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Thursday 15 March 2007, eclark wrote:
> Assuming the SC440 is the sata controller in the 2950s, Dells official
> response was "we are in the business of making hardware, not being
> concerned with actual support". The SATA module for this latest and most
> bleeding edge is megaraid_sas, which only exists in very recent versions of
> the 26 kernel.

I'd just like to point out that:
 1) the OP was trying Centos-4. Current Centos-4 has no problems what so ever 
(out of the box, no modifications, no extra drivers) with the mptsas driver 
which is what pe2950 (sas5i) uses afaict.
 2) vanilla configured sc440 uses plain libata ata_piix driver (though you can 
get the server with sas5i). Although I havn't tried it myself I do expect 
Centos-4 to "just work" with the ata_piix on sc440.

/Peter

> There are backported patches for it in 24, but these are 
> _Very Specific_ to the linux distros Dell supports. Those can be found on
> their website, and include suse9 and rhes3/4. Specifically, the following:
>
>   megaraid_sas-v00.00.03.01-RHEL30-GA-i686-all.tgz
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