From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mike_rothon Subject: Re: hostRAID, AIC-7901, disable? Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:05:26 +0000 Message-ID: References: <1103132961.3629.41.camel@compaq-rhel4.xsintricity.com> <32897.194.153.181.92.1103661695.squirrel@mail.valli.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <32897.194.153.181.92.1103661695.squirrel@mail.valli.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > We had the same problem with the adaptec 39320 in a Dell Server. > The proper driver for the adaptec U320 scsi should be aic79xx > and it really is. > The aic79xx driver of the Kernel 2.4.28 didn't recognise > our scsi adapter. So we downloaded one from adaptec which > was labeled as *minimally tested*, but this one works: > http://download.adaptec.com/scsi/linux/aic7Yxx-2.0.12-6.3.9-linux-2.4.tar.bz2 > or for kernel 2.6 series > http://download.adaptec.com/scsi/linux/aic7Yxx-2.0.12-6.3.9-linux-2.6.tar.bz2 Did these updated modules work with HostRAID enabled? I haven't been sucessful in compiling them yet, which version of SuSE do you have? > This tarballs contain the source for following drivers: > aic79xx (version 2.0.12) > aic7xxx (version 6.3.9) > They are more recent than the original ones in the kernel. > > If you don't like kernel-compiling there's a chance to find > a precompiled one on sites like > http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/drivers_by_product.jsp?sess=no&language=English+US&prodkey=ASC-39320D-R&cat=%2fProduct%2fASC-39320D-R > Strangely all the pre-compiled modules are for SuSE 8.0 and 8.2. There is one for 9.0, but it still has a 2.4 kernel. SuSE have released an update for SLES9, but of course its a different kernel variant and doesen't work with SL9.2 :-(. >>Has anyone come across a solution? Is there a driver I don't know of? >>Is there a way of disabling hostRAID? Did you find an answer to this? I have searched and searched the BIOS, the technical docs, and the web and have no solutions.