Centos 4.0 on SC440 SATA

[Richard Ford]

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I have installed on this and a SC430 and it just worked with 4.4

RF.


On 16 Mar 2007, at 4:03 AM, Peter Kjellstrom wrote:

> 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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