Ira Abramov wrote:
After having delved a little into your message, I have to say I stand by
my previous statement.
> umm, the ServeRAID drivers are on IBM's site, binary only. If you search
> for drivers from the main page you get this:
>
> http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60698
>
If you download any of those images, you will see that it contains two
interesting files. The first is a compiled version of "ips", which is
available as part of the vanilla 2.6 kernel (Redhat and friends run 2.4,
which is the reason I'm guessing this file is necessary). The second is
the "ipssend" command, which is a command line tool for communicating
with the controller (checking failures, flaging a disk, etc.) I had no
problem just taking the binary over to Debian and using it there.
> However, on Adaptec's site, they have a SOURCE tarball, but it
> specificly says it will ONLY work if the HostRAID option is enabled...
>
Enabled or disabled?
> go to downloads, pick ANY of the Ultra320 controllers (their DL pages
> all point to the same drivers)
> http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/scsi/u320/ASC-39320D/
>
and you get the AIC7xxx driver, plus it's being touted as "minimally
tested".
Having gone through the pain once, let me tell you that the aic7xxx
driver will not detect the drive if Hostraid is enabled, which means
that if you want the hardware raid option, you need to download the
(binary only) a320 driver from somewhere.
> and you get both precompiled and tarballs...
>
I didn't find anything precompiled, but I did find the aic79xx sources
there. Then again, my Debian kernel already has it.
> I don't know which ones to use anymore :-/ I guess for Debian you must
> use HostRAID with the source, but for my current client I could actually
> save them the pain and use the binaries from the first link on this
> Email (I assume the Centos kernel is ABI compatible to RHEL4 and all)
>
I'm hoping I somewhat cleared the confusion for you.
> that's what I use on my private server, but I donno about installing it
> on a much more loaded machine.
>
at least on my 346 server, ServerRaid was the one that required an
upgrade, and was the better controller.
Shachar
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