So... some (more) googling, and I found the answer ... you have to upgrade the firmware on the raid card to make it usable in Linux.
This means you have to find/install dosemu because they are like compaq and only release blabla.exe to create the file. Anyways, I upgraded the firmware to the latest one listed on support.dell.com and it magically installed (except for cd 2 and 3 being mis-labled, but I cant blame anyone but myself for that one)
Tommy
-----Original Message----- From: Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx [mailto:Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 8:55 PM To: S, Ganesh Cc: Linux-PowerEdge@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: PERC 2/SC RAID DRIVER FOR RED HAT LINUX 9.0
> I am looking for the above PERC driver to install on Dell Power Edge > 2300 Server. Can you pls let me know the link from where, I can > download the drivers
Red Hat Linux 9 already includes a megaraid driver which works quite well on that controller. You likely need to update your PERC2/SC firmware to v3.13 for it to work though. Firmware is available on support.dell.com.
Thanks, Matt
Tommy McNeely wrote:
Hello,
I was trying to install Red Hat 9 on an old Dell PowerEdge 2300 ... It has a AMI Megaraid (called PERC2/SC) oem'd by dell ... RH9 cannot seem to detect the logical disk during install. The link below seems to indicate that it worked in 1999 (probably about the right era for this machine) .. was that something that was removed from the Red Hat 9 boot CD? Dell's site lists "utilities" for Red Hat 7.2, but I am thinking I dont need utilities.. I just need kernel mods??? Anyways.. any help would be apprecieated
http://boudicca.tux.org/mhonarc/ma-linux/1999-mhonarc/1999-Nov/msg00623.html
Thanks, Tommy
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