Dell PERC/Adaptec RAID support?

Dell PERC/Adaptec RAID support?

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

Hi all

Some months ago, I asked this question, and thought about trying again.

The PERC/something card, based on the Adaptec (DPT?) chipset, delivered
by Dell on the Poweredge 2450 series servers among others, is currently
only supported in specific distributions, and not in the official Linux
kernels. As I want to run Linux-2.4.x, I can't find a kernel supporting
the PERC, and this annoys me... Does anyone know when this will be
merged into the main source tree?

Please Cc: to me as I'm not on the list

Regards

roy

RE: Dell PERC/Adaptec RAID support?

[Sigurbjörn Birkir Lárusson]

You can get patches for 2.4.1 which work fine in 2.4.2 (at least on my 2400)
at:

http://domsch.com/linux/

Along with a decent collection of information about dell poweredge systems
and linux in general.

I recommend 2.4.2, as far as I've seen it run, it seems to fix various
problems I had with the eepro driver in SMP as well.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [mailto:roy@fast.no]
> Sent: 30. mars 2001 12:43
> To: linux-kernel mailinglist
> Subject: Dell PERC/Adaptec RAID support?
> 
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Some months ago, I asked this question, and thought about 
> trying again.
> 
> The PERC/something card, based on the Adaptec (DPT?) chipset, 
> delivered
> by Dell on the Poweredge 2450 series servers among others, is 
> currently
> only supported in specific distributions, and not in the 
> official Linux
> kernels. As I want to run Linux-2.4.x, I can't find a kernel 
> supporting
> the PERC, and this annoys me... Does anyone know when this will be
> merged into the main source tree?
> 
> Please Cc: to me as I'm not on the list
> 
> Regards
> 
> roy
> 
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Re: Dell PERC/Adaptec RAID support?

[Alan Cox]

> kernels. As I want to run Linux-2.4.x, I can't find a kernel supporting
> the PERC, and this annoys me... Does anyone know when this will be
> merged into the main source tree?

When someone writes a driver that is less disgusting than the current one