On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:11:26 +0100, Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Having said that, the ProLiant ML330 come with an ATA-RAID which is >based on an LSI chipset (MegaIDE) which is not supported by Debian - the >only driver available is a half GNU, half closed-source driver. >Furthermore the drives attached to those IDE-Ports are not accessible as >"normal" IDE devices (i.e. /dev/hda) so you basically get a machine >without any usable IDE interface except for one which is attached to the >CD-ROM. >If you buy one of these machines you'll either have to use a model with >SCSI controller or install an extra IDE-controller. I got this booting in a lab with the on-board ATA-RAID using a bf2.4 kernel some weeks ago (February). I was using an HP DL320 server. The only issue with the bf2.4 kernel was requiring a net module for the NIC which I managed to succesfully extracate from the rpm and insmod. I'm now trying to do the same using the new debian-installer and testing distribution but notice that there's no megaide.o module/driver in the new three-floppy testing distribution. I've got the shim source for the driver from LSI but having compiled it on another 2.4.25 testing box and copied it onto a floppy the module is refusing to insmod on my debian-installer box. Before I start building a custom debian-installer rescue floppy with a customised kernel including this module I wondered if anyone knew of a module floppy that might have a working LSI ATA-RAID kernel module on it. I can't believe I'd really need to install Woody using bf2.4 and then upgrade just to get an ATA-RAID driver! Thanks, C.
