[Cialug] Perc3 RAID

[Tony Bibbs]

Right, so:

1) First try including aacraid in the kernel and cross fingers it works
2) if it doesn't, upgrade firmware and retry.
3) if that doesn't work, upgrade the driver.

Thank you three...that should at least ensure I'm prepared for the next 
trip to the colo.

--Tony

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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