CERC ATA/100 RAID card

[John Bown]

Very cool Torsten!  Thank you for replying.  Since I'm still somewhat
new to Linux, how do I actually go about applying the patch?

-----Original Message-----
From: Torsten Krah [mailto:tkrah at fachschaft.imn.htwk-leipzig.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 4:17 PM
To: John Bown
Cc: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: Re: CERC ATA/100 RAID card

John Bown schrieb:
> 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.  

 From where do you learned this, imho thats not the truth.
I am still using a poweregde 1600SC with a CERC/ATA100 4Ch Card, works 
fine here.
It even runs with the "new" megaraid driver on latest 2.6.24 kernel, 
although you can even get it run with the old.

You will still need a little Patch to get it working (either with the 
new or old driver, as the patch for the new one is not yet included, but

reported and tracked upstream) as reported by me.

Look here:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6695

You'll find both patches there which you may need (to get it working 
with the old, or new one there).

Torsten