I have a CentOS-4 server with an Areca RAID that I would like to update to CentOS-5. Have been building my own CentOS-4 RPMS based on bodgit-n-scarper SRPM, but that is a kludge of a spec file that needs to be hand-edited and rebuilt for each kernel.
http://www.bodgit-n-scarper.com/download/centos4/SRPMS//kernel-module-arcmsr...
Google found various interesting things for CentOS/EL-5:
http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2007/04/26/p168 http://faq.areca.com.tw/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=303 http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1958 http://www.ehoeve.com/Centos5-Experimental/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/testing...
Karanbir provided driver disk images and indicated that kmod drivers would be in CentOS-5 Extras, but apparently these never materialized. The only src.rpm I could turn up was the last link above, and I did get CentOS-5 x86_64 kmod-style drivers to build from that one. Found other indications that these drivers MIGHT be in the standard 5.1 kernel.
Before I proceed with a roll-your-own approach again, I would like to inquire about the possibility of CentOS support for Areca RAID. Will Extras or Plus kernel support be forthcoming? Should I hold off for 5.1?
Thanks, Phil