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 23:21:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 23:20:43 -0500 Received: from s216-232-126-220.bc.hsia.telus.net ([216.232.126.220]:51708 "EHLO gatekeeper.merilus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 23:20:38 -0500 Message-ID: <00ce01c075aa$fae55ec0$c901a8c0@merilus.com> From: "Kevin Traas" To: Subject: Dell PERC RAID Controller Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:30:56 -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 Oh, and I forgot to mention.... I'm not subscribed to this mailing list, so please be sure to reply privately with any comments, questions, etc. Regards, Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Traas" To: ; Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 9:22 AM Subject: Dell PERC RAID Controller > 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/