On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.com wrote:
RedShift wrote on Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:05:02 +0100:
That controller doesn't really support RAID, what you're getting is commonly called FakeRAID
If you are referring to the 1068E, that is completely wrong.
The vendor who built the server confirmed that the controller card should be LSI 1068E.
I found a driver for RHEL5.5 from LSI's page. And some more digging revealed that I should be able to use linux dd=url format for loading the driver from network as the machine has no floppy. I will test that next week when I get my hands on that machine again.
A few questions though I would like to get answered:
1) What is the best way to find out if a certain controller etc is supported by the kernel? Do I need to download the kernel src rpm, install it and look for some documentation/source somewhere?
2) If I need to use the binary driver by LSI, how do I proceed with kernel updates?
Best regards, Peter