[Cialug] Perc3 RAID

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I can testify to the "less hair" fact.

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On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 15:21, Jon Clemons wrote:
>  Yea, he needs the AACRAID driver for sure. Although if the firmware is not 
> a certain
> revision even with the AACRAID driver the kernel will panic because 
> something
> in the module checks to make sure the firmware is a certain version or 
> higher or
> otherwise it panics. I have been down that exact road before which is why I
> have less hair today:)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Weis" <djweis@sjdjweis.com>
> To: <cialug@cialug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 3:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Perc3 RAID
> 
> 
> >
> > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Jon Clemons wrote:
> >> I have extensive Dell Server and Linux experience. Back in the 2.4 days 
> >> if you upgraded
> >> a kernel and the Perc3 firmware was not current you would get a kernel 
> >> panic.
> >
> > From watching over Tony's shoulder I think he was getting the generic no 
> > root filesystem found. It kind of looked like the raid card driver was 
> > just missing, I thought the lsi driver covered the older dell cards, but I 
> > hadn't done too much with the older ones.
> >
> >
> > -- 
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> > abridgment
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