I have just upgraded a server from an old Dell to a Dell Optiplex GX
620 which has a SATA drive. I have added an adaptec 29160 scsi pci
card to the system. I am running RHEL Update 6 so that the system
could see the drives.
Adaptec has not written a driver for RHEL Update 6. I looked on their
pages; I called Adaptec for confirmation.
I have downloaded the aic7Yxx-2.0.15-6.3.11-linux-2.4.tgz which is the
source for the driver. How do I build the driver and add it to the
system.
I understand that I can add the driver module to /etc/modules.conf once
it is built; I don't have to rebuild the kernel.
I did see the following mail on the redhat mailing list that indicates
that my attempts may be futile.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list redh
at com>
Subject: RE: Need drivers for sata hard drive
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:50:07 -0400
As far I know you CAN NOT mix SATA and SCSI disks. Must be
IDE and SATA or SCSI only.
I tried it to see what happens and it totally messes up drive
tables.
SATA uses SCSI emulation system. SATA drive shows up as /dev
/sda1 (for example).
Don't know if the problem is unique to RHEL 3 or all Linux.
Marcelino
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