Thanx for your quick reply on Friday.
I was able to get the aacraid driver statically linked into the kernel
to recognize the drive.
I found the 1.1-5-2420 drivers from the Adaptec site
(aacraid_drv_1.1.5-2420.rpm)
Since there were no patches specifically for my kernel RHEL3
(kernel-2.4.21-47.E),
I used the driver source located in aacraid_source.tgz which I used to
replace everything in the drivers/scsi/aacraid directory
and recompiled the kernel.
How stable is the 1.1.5-2420 driver under 2.4?
Also, is 2420 the latest stable build?
Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
The driver in RHEL3 is old (1.1.5-2412ish, so not that old), use the
Adaptec supplied sources and we will investigate. You can find them in
our download section, just pick a 'modern' aac based card and browse for
the latest. I believe I fixed the last set of problems associate with
compiling the driver static in the kernel in 1.1.5-2415. The testing was
done under a 2.6 kernel though so we may have a new set of issues to
work through ...
Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn
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Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:35 PM
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Subject: aacraid not detecting drives if compiled into kernel
I'm using the Redhat kernel-2.4.21-47.EL on an IBM x3550 server which
has a IBM ServeRAID 8k-l controller.
I recompiled kernel to include the aacraid driver in the
kernel (not as
a module) for use with a bootcd.
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_SCSI_AACRAID=y
When the kernel loads, the aacraid driver initializes but it does not
find the drive.
If I force the SCSI subsystem to rescan the host adapters,
the aacraid
driver finds the drive.
# echo "scsi scan-new-devices" > /dev/scsi/scsi
However, if I compile the aacraid driver as a module, when I do a
'modprobe aacraid' the driver loads and finds the drive.
Any ideas on what is wrong and how to get around this?
I really need to have the aacraid driver compiled into the kernel for
various reasons to avoid using an initrd.
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