Margaret, There should be a readme file included with the driver. /*Off the bat, I suggest you untar it, cd to the folder and run make and make install. If i know Adaptec, there should be an info message once the make install is done. At that point you can try loading the new modules using modprobe and after that running kudzu to see if it picks up on the hardware. If it doesnt, I think you can change modules.conf and associate the scsi host adapater with the new module name, that should load the bugger on boot.. */ Please note that tinkering with that kind of stuff may hose the system to the point where it would require rescuing, [happened to me last Friday] so I would'nt do any of the above remotely and of course not on a production system. Regards, Greg On 1/14/06, Margaret_Doll <Margaret_Doll@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > ***************** > 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 > ****************** > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
