PE2950 III hardware supported by RHEL 3?

[Moe, Justin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-
> bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Eric Sisler
> Subject: PE2950 III hardware supported by RHEL 3?
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
> I have a legacy application running on RHEL 3 & old hardware which is
in
> need of replacement.  The application will likely be phased out in the
> not-too-distant future, so I'd prefer to simply "transplant" the OS &
> application to new hardware.  I know *how* to do this, what I'd like
to
> know is if RHEL 3 has support for the 2950 III's hardware (RAID card,
> drives, etc).  Only RHEL 4 & 5 are listed as OS options on the Dell
> website.  Any thoughts about this?

I actually had to deal with this one for another department that didn't
have the time to look into it.

The base OS was a revision of CentOS that was based on RHEL 3, and the
only real problem I could see with my limited testing was that the PERC
6/I was not seen by the system due to a missing kernel module.

I was able to hack together a driver disk for this using the Dell driver
disk for RH 4 as a base.

IIRC, the biggest issue was that the files that contained the PCI ID's
had some incorrect characters (I think it was a tab had been replaced
with spaces).  Once I corrected that and tweaked the directories to
match the kernel version (it was off by a patch number), it detected the
card and RAID volume.