CERC ATA/100 RAID card

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 12:23, John Bown wrote:
> Good afternoon everyone.  I'm hoping a few of the Dell folks out there
> can help me.
> 
> After purchasing one of the subject cards on eBay for a PE 1600SC, I
> learned that support for it has officially been dropped from the Linux
> kernel.  Joy.  At any rate, I read in the "MegaRAID i4 IDE RAID

When running the card with the latest firmware I found the card
only worked with the old megaraid driver.  But if you backed up
one revision, it works with the current driver (or was it 2
revisions ?).

The only issue was when you backup a rev, you are limited to
drives under 130ish gig (non LBA48 ?).

I actually worked on compiling the old megaraid driver and did
get it working on a box, however it didn't always work properly
so I abandoned that idea.

Figuring out why the new megaraid driver doesn't see logical
drives (i could get it to see the controller, just no logical
drives) would have been ideal, but I don't have the time to get
that 'deep'.

I'm not sure why this card was 'abandoned'... and even more unsure
why nobody 'picked it up'.  Seems one LSI 'orphaned' it... it was
doomed.

> Controller Hardware Guide" that I downloaded from LSI's website (the
> manufacturer) that a jumper on the card itself, J2, can be used to
> enable/disable the card's BIOS.
> 
I've never tried that.  I don't know what you'd get.

If you don't need large drive support, use one or two revs down
from the latest firmware (downgrade one rev at a time till it
works).

-- Curt

> With that I ask, if I disabled the card's BIOS, would openSUSE 10.3
> and/or SLES 10 SP1 see the card as an additional IDE controller instead
> of a RAID controller?  I'm hoping that if classified as the former, the
> card won't need the now discontinued RAID driver.  That way, I could at
> least use this thing for software RAID.
> 
> Thank you all for your time.
> 
> 
> John
> 
> 
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