Hi,
To follow up my CentOS 4.0/Areca SATA RAID driver disk I created a month or two ago, I have now created kernel-module-arcmsr RPMs containing just the kernel module to track the kernel updates. This means:
a) No need to patch, rebuild and maintain customised kernels for Areca support b) Keep everything maintained with RPM
I've taken the latest 1.20.00.07 kernel driver source as found in the 2.6.12-rc1-mm3 kernel, and built it for all variations of the i586/i686/x86_64 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL CentOS 4.0 kernels.
I've also updated the driver disk so it now has the same kernel driver, but built for all of the i586/i686/x86_64 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL kernels used on the installer. There is also a nosrc RPM for the various utilities Areca offer, but you'll have to build that one yourself as I don't know what license they're released under.
As before, you can get them from here:
http://www.bodgit-n-scarper.com/code.html#centos
I only have an x86_64 machine with an Areca card, so if anyone is using these packages on an i586 or i686 machine, please drop me a note so I at least know they work.
Thanks
Matt