Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
According to Adaptec web site, seems they are selling directly only 4, 8 and 16 ports cards in 2x10SA series (2410SA, 2810SA and 21610SA respectively). Your 6-port version is probably OEM card made by Adaptec exclusively for system integrators. My guess is that it should work with standard aacraid device driver (like the rest of the cards in 2x10SA series), if you can get the driver to recognize the card. When it says that it can't find any hard drives during installation, click on the option to manualy load driver, then add aacraid driver to list of drivers to be loaded.
Looking at kernel source (Centos 4.2, kernel-2.6.9-22.EL), the card seems to be listed in drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c file. If it doesn't work for you, then Dell probably used its own PCI ID for the card (you can check the file and see if PCI ID in line for 2610SA is the same as the one in your card). There are also catch-all lines at the end of the list.
I tried these drivers and nothing worked. I have just tried Fedora Core 5 Test 2 release and it finds the card right away just by booting to disk 1. Perhaps the next version of CentOS will support these cards by default. Thanks for the reply.