From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 23:19:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 23:19:04 -0500 Received: from s216-232-126-220.bc.hsia.telus.net ([216.232.126.220]:49148 "EHLO gatekeeper.merilus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 23:18:59 -0500 Message-ID: <00c001c075aa$c09eda20$c901a8c0@merilus.com> From: "Kevin Traas" To: Subject: Dell PERC RAID Controller Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:29:38 -0800 Organization: Merilus Technologies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greetings everyone, After much frustration in trying to get Debian GNU/Linux (my distro of choice) installed on a Dell PowerEdge 2450, I've finally found success! My problem was finding kernel support for the onboard PERC 3/Si RAID Controller (Adaptec OEM chipset) so that I could store my root fs with a RAID array container. Turns out that Adaptec has recently open-sourced the driver; however, it hasn't been accepted into any of the Linux kernel trees as of yet. So, I tracked down the driver sources (many thanks to Matt), patched them (5 patches in total) into 2.2.18, and built my own, new patch file to incorporate the aacraid 1.0.6 driver into this kernel in one, easy step. For anyone who's interested, you'll find the patch, a patched 2.2.18 kernel source archive, Debian (potato) installation disk images (with this new kernel), and other info at: http://www.merilus.com/~kevin/aacraid.html Regards, Kevin Traas Chief Information Officer Merilus Technologies, Inc. .:|| Thinking inside the box ||:. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/