[Cialug] Perc3 RAID

[Tony Bibbs]

Not to doubt you too much but how did you reach that conclusion?

What's involved with that, simply booting a CD or floppy or do I have to 
do something crazy like flash the card?

--Tony

Jon Clemons wrote:
> Upgrade your Perc3 to the absolute latest firmware and then it should quit
> the panic on boot.
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Bibbs" <tony@tonybibbs.com>
> To: <cialug@cialug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 2:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Perc3 RAID
> 
> 
>> 2.6.x-r10
>>
>> Can't remember the 'x'.
>>
>> --Tony
>>
>> Jon Clemons wrote:
>>
>>> What kernel version?
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Bibbs" <tony@tonybibbs.com>
>>> To: <cialug@cialug.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 2:47 PM
>>> Subject: [Cialug] Perc3 RAID
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have a Dell PowerEdge 2450 with a Perc 3 RAID controller in it.  
>>>> After getting Gentoo built on it, reboots produce a kernel panic.  
>>>> Dave Weis got me started in the right direction by suggesting the 
>>>> kernel can't find the controller.  I went into menuconfig and 
>>>> included the LSI megaraid, recompiled and rebooted but still got the 
>>>> same problem.
>>>>
>>>> Next, I went in and enabled the Adaptec AHAXXXX options in the 
>>>> kernel. Again I recompiled and rebooted and this time the kernel 
>>>> recognizes both of the SCSI channels (A and B) but still gave a 
>>>> kernel panic.
>>>>
>>>> Anybody else got Perc 3 card running under linux?  If so could you 
>>>> get me the corresponding kernel options you brought in?
>>>>
>>>> TIA,
>>>>
>>>> --Tony
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