On Monday, January 16, 2006, at 08:13 AM, James Marcinek wrote:
General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
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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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You could take the tarball and turn it into an rpm. That would make it
easier to
recover. Someone may have already done it if your lucky.
I downloaded aic7Yxx-2.0.15-6.3.11-linux-2.4.tar which is the "SCSI
Driver Source Code
for Linux Kernel Versions 2.4. I have 2.4.21-31.EL on my system.
There is a Makefile in the tar set but no configure option. The Readme
file talks about
options to add in /etc/modules.conf but not on how to build the driver.
"make" in the top directory indicates that the
Makefile:58: /Rules.make: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/Rules.make'. Stop.
"make" in a subdirectory ( aicasm) works.
How do I make an rpm from the aic7xxx source tar file?
This is for a production system, but I have another system I could
"play" with.
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