Topic: Adaptec 2400A IDE RAID Drivers

[Craig]

Has anyone tried Charlie Brady's drivers that he compiled for use with Adaptec 2400A IDE RAID. I believe that ths driver also works with Adaptec 2100S SCSI RAID controllers as well.

I have a card that I have borrowed to see if the drivers work but they don't. I have configured 3 drive with RAID-5 configuration from the controllers bios. Created a driver disk from Charlie's disk image. Started the installation process from SME 5.1.2 CD, then typed in "accept dd", then inserted the driver disk when asked and the driver seems to load. When the install process comes to the point to looking for hard drives none are found.

I have also tried the driver on an older DPT SCSI RAID controller with an Intel I960 chipset as it also uses the DPT2IO driver with still no joy.

Has anybody else successfully compiled or installed this driver.

What other compatible IDE RAID cards have people successfully got running with either RAID 1, 10 or 5 on SME 5.1.2?

Thankyou in advance.

Craig

[Kelvin]

Hi Craig,

The 2400A's little brother, the 1200A is based on the Highpoint HPT370A chip. This card only supports RAID 0, 1, 10 but not 5. This card should work in SME 5.1.2 with Highpoint drivers.  I have successfully tried one in the past with ESSG 4.1.2 but have used other cards based on the same chipset  in SME 5.1.2.

Kelvin

[Craig]

Kelvin

Thanks for the info I will see if I can get a HPT370A based card as well and try it out on SME 5.1.2.

I would really like to get the Adaptec 2400A going though.

Are you in a position to try and compile the drivers again for me using the info from Charlie Brady's contrib directory on E-Smiths FTP server. If you do could you email them to me and I will give them ago. I have tried myself but have had no success maybe another attempt might shed more light on it. I probably didn't do something right when I did mine.

Regards
Craig

[Kelvin]

Hi Craig,

I've had a look at the drivers at Charlie's directory as well as downloaded the ones available from Adaptec's web site. Both did not contain the "source" files that I am accustomed to seeing -- but instead contained patch files, even though the Adaptec web site says that their file contains the source as well. However, as I am still learning this thing called Linux (on a daily basis - something new everyday ), these may well be "source" files, I just currently don't know how to use them properly -- yet !

When I treated the patch files as script files and executed one of them (I think the one from Charlie's folder), it ran and crunched away and worked on the driver disk in drive A: with no errors reported (that I noticed anyway). At the end there was a file called modules.cgz on the floppy. Great, I thought. I unpacked it (being the nosy parker that I am when doing this sort of thing) and found that it contained the 2.2.19* folders that you'ld expect on a driver disk but found that they were empty ! Hmm.. that won't get anyone very far, me thinks ! Anyway, it was getting very late and I decided to can it till I get a bit more time to think straight and try again (as I'm sure I must have missed something).

So, at the end of this long, boring, sad tale, I'm sorry to say I've not got a driver for you -- yet. Hey, you might even beat me to it and get a copy from another kind soul who might have had better luck at it (or at least knows what they are doing ... ).

Kelvin

[Craig]

Kelvin

Thanks for the effort I did not have much luck either with building the drivers.

Will have another go and see what happens.

I really hope that SME incorporates into 5.5 some standard drivers for most common SCSI/IDE RAID cards into their base setup....would make life alot easier.

Regards
Craig