Topic: Adaptec 2400A IDE Controller

[Des Dougan]

According to Adaptec's site, the 2400A IDE RAID controller is supported under Red Hat 7. Has anyone any experience with this card under 4.1.2 or 5.0? I'd appreciate any thoughts.

Thanks,

Des Dougan

[Kelvin Lee]

Hi Des,

I'm happy to say that I have tried the 2400A under ESSG 4.1.2. It was painless to install as well (although not automatic).

However, I did not try it as a boot controller, only as a RAID controller for the data drives (the server had a separate boot drive). None the less, it does work.

Kelvin

[Des Dougan]

Kelvin,

Thanks for your reply. Do you know if it can be configured as the boot controller?


Des Dougan

[Kelvin Lee]

Des,

Theoretically, yes, I don't see why not. As I said previously, I personally have not tried it as the boot controller. You probably just need to make sure your MB BIOS has been setup correctly to boot from another source other than the on board controllers, plus you need to supply e-smith with the correct driver during installation in expert mode (something like that, I'm no guru at Linux ).

Kelvin

[JeromeV]

>> need to supply e-smith with the correct driver during installation in expert mode  <<

I think it's not possible. It's one of my BIIIIIIG probleme !!!

[Kelvin Lee]

Des & Jerome,

You could try this :-

When booting the ESSG CD-ROM, at the initial screen, type

accept dd         ( dd stands for driver disk )

instead of just accept.

You will be prompted for a driver disk during install.

Let me know if this works OK.

Kelvin

[Charlie Brady]

Des Dougan wrote:
 
> According to Adaptec's site, the 2400A IDE RAID controller is
> supported under Red Hat 7. Has anyone any experience with
> this card under 4.1.2 or 5.0? I'd appreciate any thoughts.

As far as I can tell Adaptec have only released a binary version of their driver, and then not for the updated 7.0 kernel (2.2.19-7.0. which we have used in SME V5. UNfortunately, that means that we cannot support this controller.

Ask Adaptec to provide source code.

Regards

Charlie

[JeromeV]

Je viens d'essayer l'install de e-smith 4.1 avec "accept dd" et j'ai utilisé la disquette de drivers redhat 7.0/7.1 pour le chipset hpt370.
CA MARCHE !!!
J'ai maintenant un e-smith qui tourne sur des disques ide en raid 1 hardware.
Je ne peux malheureusement faire la même chose avec sme v5 à cause de l'incompatibilité noyau entre sme v5 et redhat 7.1.
J'ai demandé à HighPoint de fournir soit les sources du modules, sous un module compile pour le noyau 2.2.19-7 mais sans réponse de leur part.